[Dovecot] authentication with mysql - problem with table name escaping

[Timo Sirainen]

On 26.8.2007, at 3.41, XhE wrote:

> Found a problem with dovecot 1.0.3 and mysql authentication
>
> I got a problem with escaping of mysql table names. Usually, when a  
> mysql table name has some special character (in my case there is a  
> table beginning with the # character) one has to put into these  
> special quotes --- ` ---; others like ' oder " are not recognized.  
> But dovecot somehow doesn't allow me to do that.

I don't know what you mean by putting into special quotes. Can you  
given an example? But if you tried to use # it would be treated as a  
comment, so you'd have to put the whole setting inside quotes:

password_query = "select password, from #table where .."

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