> On 11/05/2021 12:33 Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 10. May 2021, at 17.33, Mathias Rabe <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > pass_attrs =
> > mail=user,userPassword=password,=userdb_mail_crypt_private_password=%w,mailCrypt=userdb_mail_crypt_save_version
> ..
> > The users can log-in and everything works fine including the
> > mail-crypt-plugin until an user password contains a % I get the following
> > error message (example):
> >
> > Error: Failed to expand plugin setting mail_crypt_private_password =
> > '"1234%Passwort"': Unknown variable '%P‘
> >
> > I’ve found some mails but I didn’t found a solution. It seems that Dovecot
> > tries to expand some variable in the password:
> >
> > https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2019-July/116338.html
> > https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2020-April/118634.html
> >
> > So this seems to be a bug or something. Is there any new information on
> > this topic or even any solution or workaround?
>
> It's a long-known issue, tracked internally as DOP-323. It only happens to
> plugin settings. I'm not sure how easy or difficult it would be to fix, but
> it might also break some existing systems that rely on the behavior. We have
> also DOP-329 issue about doing somewhat larger config redesign so that plugin
> settings become more normal settings. Doing that would also solve this
> problem as a side effect.
>
> Lots of things to do, but not enough time. Which reminds me: We're now hiring
> a new Dovecot developer if anyone is interested (it's not publicly posted
> yet).
Luckily there is a simple workaround for this:
mail_crypt_private_password=%{sha256:w}
Aki
