Prevent the Brute Force Monitor from reporting a specific email address

If you're using the Brute Force Montior (BFM) and have an email address that is repeatedly checking your server, but that account is invalid (either wrong password, or non-existant account), and you know that the person doing it is not malicious, but only stubborn for not updating their settings, then you can tell the BFM to skip that email address from being checked.

To do this, create the following custom script:

nano /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/brute_force_notify_pre.sh

and in that script, add the following code:

#!/bin/sh
if [ "$type" = "User" ]; then
   if [ "$value" = "your@email.com" ]; then
       echo "exempt your@email.com";
       exit 1;
   fi
fi
exit 0;

then chmod the script to 755:

chmod 755 /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/custom/brute_force_notify_pre.sh

Note that this will only prevent reports for users/emails being reported.  It will not prevent the blocking IPs, as the IP could be "attacking" some other account as well.