[Dovecot] Password field limitations

[Luigi Rosa]

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Charles Marcus said the following on 23/12/08 18:06:

>> What limitations are imposed on the password for IMAP/POP3 users?
>> I've had a customer saying they can't use passwords which contain "."
>> or ":", and some seem to have problems when the password is 8
>> characters.

> If I'm not mistaken, dovecot doesn't care - this will be a limitation of
> your Filesystem and/or password storage tool... in this case, MySQL...

I Use MySQL and I don't have such kind of limitations.

I would blame Tom's MySQL interface or implementation, but not MySQL itself.


Ciao,
luigi

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