[Dovecot] Error "Initializing mail storage ..." after upgrading to 2.2.10 - BUG? - Solution

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 04.03.2014 09:03, schrieb Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator:
> Am 28.02.14 09:19, schrieb Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator:
> <...>
> 
> Hi, thanks to all suggestions, but it looks like the long username (35
> letters) causes that problem, that just one out of about 1.000 users
> cant log in.
> 
> We shorted/changed the username to less than 35 letters and every thing
> is fine now.
> 
> dovecot-2.2.10-1_14.el5
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.10
> CPU architecture x86_64 SMP
> Local Filesystem ext3
> PAM authentication with ldap backend.
> 
> May be that's a bug? Or feature?
> 
> 	Regards . Götz
> 

reading this

http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3696&eid=1690

it should be a bug , until you did not go over the total max limit
but you may look in ldap problems too, perhaps there is a limit too


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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