[Dovecot] Password field limitations

[Charles Marcus]

On 12/23/2008 12:25 PM, Luigi Rosa wrote:
>> 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.

I certainly didn't intend to mean it was a Mysql limitation in general -
I'm using it too for my user/password backend, and have all of these
characters available in passwords:

`~!@#$%^&*()_-+={}|[]:;<>?,.

More than likely it is a system library or charset issue, or something
like that...

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Best regards,

Charles