On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:21 +0200, Torsten Krah wrote: > Hi, > > some question about passdb backend: > > I'll receive this (using dovecot 2.0.13, pgsql passdb backend) for some users: > > mail dovecot: auth: passdb(account-username,127.0.0.1): Attempted login with > password having illegal chars > > Password schema ist crypt-md5. > So what "chars" does dovecot not like (why?) and whats the preferred way to > fix > this?
There are very few illegal characters for password. They're all control characters, so no real user should be using them: \001, TAB, CR and LF.
