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=== Setting up an SMTP server ===
=== [[Fail2Ban]] ===
 
Install:
<pre>
apt install fail2ban
</pre>
 
==== Configuration ====
 
Editing <code>/etc/fail2ban/jail.local</code>, using the defaults from [[Mastodon/Setup]]
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="toml">
[DEFAULT]
destemail = your@email.here
sendername = Fail2Ban
 
[sshd]
enabled = true
port = 22
 
[sshd-ddos]
enabled = true
port = 22
</syntaxhighlight>
 
Then restart the service
 
<pre>
systemctl restart fail2ban
</pre>
 
== Setting up an SMTP server ==
By default, Linode disables SMTP ports 587 etc. This requires a manual human-facing support ticket to remove. (Done by @Jonny on Nov 25 2022)
By default, Linode disables SMTP ports 587 etc. This requires a manual human-facing support ticket to remove. (Done by @Jonny on Nov 25 2022)