[Dovecot] Authentication Error Message formats

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Oct 29 16:59:37 EET 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:49 -0400, Albert E. Whale wrote:
> I have been using UW's IMAP server and I am converting to Dovecot for
> Maildir support.
> 
> When a user fails authentication, or a user does not exist, it appears
> that the same message is used for these events.
> 
> Is there a way to indicate that the user does not exist (Invalid user),
> and authentication Failure (Failed Password)?

To user: no. In logs: yes, with auth_verbose=yes.

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