[neomutt-users] long passwords with special characters cause problems

Pietro Cerutti gahr at gahr.ch
Fri Mar 17 16:41:29 CET 2017


On 2017-Mar-17, 16:27, juh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> some imap passwords seem to cause problems.
> 
> While I can authenticate with a long password with severel special
> characters in it with thunderbird, I cannot with mutt.
> 
> The logs say:
> 
> [2017-03-17 16:06:44] 5< a0000 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication
> failed.
> 
> When I change the password of the account to something simple it works,
> so I think I have all other config parameters set right.
> 
> Has anybody encountered this, too?

Are you running pre or post c72ab00?

https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/c72ab00

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Pietro Cerutti
gahr at gahr.ch
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