Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Linux command to find user who failed to login from pop/imap

 journalctl -u dovecot -g "auth failed"

grep -i "auth failed" /var/log/mail.log | grep -E "imap|pop"

journalctl -u dovecot -g "auth failed" | grep -oE "user=<.*?>" | sort | uniq -c

grep "auth failed" /var/log/maillog | awk '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr



grep "auth failed" /var/log/maillog | grep "@example.com" | head


grep "auth failed" /var/log/maillog | \
grep -oE '[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@example\.com' | \
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

grep "auth failed" /var/log/maillog | \
awk '/@example\.com/ {print $NF}' | \
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Linux command to find user who failed to login from pop/imap

 journalctl -u dovecot -g "auth failed" grep -i "auth failed" /var/log/mail.log | grep -E "imap|pop" journalct...