IP keeps getting Banned even though its whitelisted

[jlguerrero]

You are doing it wrong.

You have to whitelist the ip in fail2ban otherwise fail2ban will insert a rule with higher priority than your whitelist in iptables.

Fail2ban whitelist

My smtp server bans my webservers because of fail2ban. Webserver hosting WordPress → Conects via SMTP → Mail server (Hestia) → Send emails When a website has a misconfigured plugin, during test or at any point, the whole server gets banned. And no other Website can send emails. I would like to whitelist my webservers in my Mail server to prevent this from happening. This is what I tried /etc/fail2ban/jail.local [default] ignoreip = 195.114.211.xxx 5.56.63.xxx 5.56.62.xxx 185.37.226.xxx 5…