[imp] Cannot use password with a \ in it to login to imap server

[Kim Hoffman]

The suggestion as given below did not work for me.


> ** So, I did a little more dig up and found out that if protocol is
> imap/notls
> then doesn't work, but with normal 'imap' protocol works fine.


Quoting Ziaur Rahman <zialist at mzrahman.com>:

> 
> | > I am using the setup as below.  Users with a \ in their password like
> | > 12\Asd34 cannot login.  However if they type in 12\\Asd34 they could
> | > login.
> |
> | Works fine here.
> |
> | -chuck
> 
> Doesn't work for me in horde. ???
> 
> I did the following in the IMAP later and found:
> 
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN]
> host.domain.com
> IMAP4rev1 2001.315rh at Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:59:06 +0800 (SGT)
> 00 login testslash test\slash
> 00 BAD Missing or invalid argument to LOGIN
> 00 login testslash test\\slash
> 00 BAD Missing or invalid argument to LOGIN
> 
> but, strangely horde gives me the following message:
> 
> Jun 14 23:01:30 HORDE [error] [imp] FAILED LOGIN xxx.xxx.x.xxx to
> localhost:143[imap/notls] as testslash [on line 260 of
> "/var/www/webmail/horde/imp/lib/IMP.php"]
> 
> and I get nothing but the following in my /var/log/maillog:
> 
> Jun 14 23:01:14 zia imapd[13792]: imap service init from 127.0.0.1
> 
> ** So, I did a little more dig up and found out that if protocol is
> imap/notls
> then doesn't work, but with normal 'imap' protocol works fine.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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Kim Tan Hoffman
Information Technology Services
University of Western Ontario
London Ontario
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