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

[Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator]

Am 04.03.14 09:24, schrieb 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 . Götz62
>>
> 
> 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

Thanks for your feedback,

from that RFC Document it looks like we are save. 35 < 64 characters.

However, the problem is solved when WE change the users login name, so
for curiosity: what has been changed in the dovecot code?

	Regards . Götz


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