[imp] exchange and special passwords

Joseph Brennan brennan at columbia.edu
Tue Jul 22 08:16:16 PDT 2003


> we have an exchange server in our windows 2000 domain (domain name "w2k").
> if a user has a password which starts with "%" he has to login with the
> username "w2k/loginname". with a "simple" password he can login just with
> "loginname", but it also works with "w2k/loginname".


The character % is not allowed in imap passwords.  RFC 2060.

Joseph Brennan         Columbia University in the City of New York
Academic Technologies Group                   brennan at columbia.edu




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