nologin + reason -> logging reason

Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz arekm at maven.pl
Mon Nov 21 14:39:39 UTC 2016


Hi.

I'm using nologin with own reason [1]. That works fine. For example pop3 
client gets nice message like "-ERR [AUTH] Account is locked. Please contact 
support."


Unfortunately maillog lacks information details about why user was not allowed 
to log in.

pop3-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 2 secs): user=<testuser>, 
method=LOGIN, rip=1.1.1.1, lip=2.2.2.2, session=<yIsRftBBmsrB7y2h>

Is it possible to log "reason" there, too? (whether it is default/internal 
dovecot reason or my custom one).


reason is the only thing in maillog that allows to distinguish why user was 
not allowed to log in.


1. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org )


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