[Dovecot] Improvements to "Authentication failed" error

tomas at tuxteam.de tomas at tuxteam.de
Mon Oct 6 08:48:20 EEST 2008


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On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:35AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 00:51 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > 2) People who don't even think about looking at logs.
> 
> Oh, one more alternative to this I thought of:

I think still 2b is best ("refer to server log"). You might add "or
system administrator", but I'd think even this is overkill.

I bet there will be people not reading even this[1]. Thiy'll have to
do the first step sometime.

[1] and no, I don't think it's bad intentions or lazyness -- it's just
lack of habit in debugging.

Regards
- -- tomás
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