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

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 2017-Mar-17, 16:41, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> On 2017-Mar-17, 17:35, juh wrote:
> > Am 17.03.2017 um 17:08 schrieb Pietro Cerutti:
> > 
> > > What authenticator are you using? Could you please post the debug file
> > > (.muttdebug0) you get by running mutt -d2?
> > 
> > 
> > [2017-03-17 17:02:48] imap_authenticate: Using any available method.
> > [2017-03-17 17:02:48] Anmeldung...
> > [2017-03-17 17:02:48] 5> a0000 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=
> > 
> > [2017-03-17 17:02:52] 5< a0000 NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Authentication
> > failed.
> > 
> > The X's stand for the hash
> 
> Thanks, I opened https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/479. I'm
> going to be away for one week. I'll start investigation when I'm back,
> if nobody picked it up earlier.

Hello Juh,

not sure if you've followed the discussion on Issue #479. It turns out
this is not a bug but a documented feature, see for example:
https://www.neomutt.org/guide/configuration.html#ex-rc-backtick

To avoid such expansions, please surround your password with single
quotes:

set imap_password = 'my`strange_#/"password'

Hope this helps,

-- 
Pietro Cerutti
gahr at gahr.ch
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