[imp] exchange and special passwords

[Andrew Morgan]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Joseph Brennan wrote:

>
> > 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.

% works fine in passwords here, using Pine as an IMAP client against a UW
IMAP server...  The RFC says that passwords may be made of "atom" or
"string", and strings can contain % as far as I can tell from the spec.

	Andy