[Dovecot] Improvements to "Authentication failed" error

[Don Steiny]

tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:

I have a problem and I have not been able to figure out how to get it to
log any useful information.  I would like to see what is happening
between the client and the server. I was thinking that I might use strace. 

-Don
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:35AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 00:51 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >> 2) People who don't even think about looking at logs.
> > Oh, one more alternative to this I thought of:
>
> I think still 2b is best ("refer to server log"). You might add "or
> system administrator", but I'd think even this is overkill.
>
> I bet there will be people not reading even this[1]. Thiy'll have to
> do the first step sometime.
>
> [1] and no, I don't think it's bad intentions or lazyness -- it's just
> lack of habit in debugging.
>
> Regards
> -- tomás