Error in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/dovecot.conf

[Sven Gottwald]

/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/dovecot.conf contains an error (Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS):

root@umbar:~# fail2ban-regex /var/log/syslog /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/dovecot.conf

Running tests
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Use failregex file : /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/dovecot.conf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-regex", line 415, in <module>
    fail2banRegex.readRegex(cmd_regex, 'fail') or sys.exit(-1)
  File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-regex", line 226, in readRegex
    'add%sRegex' % regextype.title())(regex.getFailRegex())
  File "/usr/share/fail2ban/server/filter.py", line 92, in addFailRegex
    raise e
server.failregex.RegexException: Unable to compile regular expression '^\s*(<[^.]+\.[^.]+>)?\s*(?:\S+ )?(?:kernel: \[\d+\.\d+\] )?(?:@vserver_\S+ )?(?:(?:\[\d+\])?:\s+[\[\(]?(auth|dovecot(-auth)?|auth-worker)(?:\(\S+\))?[\]\)]?:?|[\[\(]?(auth|dovecot(-auth)?|auth-worker)(?:\(\S+\))?[\]\)]?:?(?:\[\d+\])?:?)?\s(?:\[ID \d+ \S+\])?\s*(pop3|imap)-login: Login: user=.+, method=PLAIN, rip=(?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>[\w\-.^_]*\w), lip=(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(, mpid=\d+'

[Sven Gottwald (svengo)]

Please close the bug. The file was modified locally. The original file runs without error.
Sorry!