I ran into a problem while configuring dovecot. Quickly reading the paragraph below, I saw "yes" as one of the options, and put that into the config, as below:

In case of password mismatches, log the attempted password. Valid

values are

no, plain and sha1. sha1 can be useful for detecting brute force password

attempts vs. user simply trying the same password over and over again.

You can also truncate the value to n chars by appending ":n" (e.g.

sha1:6). auth_verbose_passwords = yes

The result from doveconf -n was: doveconf: Error: x�η doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf: 0pη

(where the error message was always a changing, apparently random set of characters.)

So I managed, by going back through the config file and commenting out options, to find this was the problem and then finally read what are the acceptable values.

Any other place that I have tried to give a non acceptable value I get a reasonable error message with line number and problem.

Well, now I fixed my original problem, but something needs to be adjusted in the error handling code.

Sincerely, Andrew Ray

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