I am getting brute forced, what do I do

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I am getting brute forced to my email server, IMAP and POP3. I have the full package of ASL installed but it just sends me the OSSEC logs. How can I ban the IP.

I thought ASL automatically blocked these attacks after a few wrong tries. How can I do that.

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