On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:44 -0700, dovecot mail list account wrote: > Seem to have found a error in version 1.2.6 regarding usernames having a > number as the first character. Customers with a number as the first character > in thier user name can not login via pop3 clients. However they can login > through our webmail interface. If we remove the number from the username then > the customer can login.
Set auth_debug=yes. What does Dovecot log when such user tries to log in? It's possible that the bug is in PAM/NSS plugin instead of Dovecot, anyway most likely some code somewhere assumes that if name begins with a digit it's UID number rather than username.
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