[Dovecot] Password and special caracter

[Joseph Yee]

Sounds more like SASL than Dovecot.

I had my Dovecot authenticate against DB in UTF8 encoding, and it can  
handle Chinese character for password.

Can your smtp authentication allows special character?

Best,
Joseph

On 1-Oct-09, at 10:40 AM, Gilles Albusac wrote:

> Problem :  I have a problem with special character in the password.  
> Character like ! * é are deleted
>
> My configuration :
>  - a smtp server with Postfix 2.6 and Dovcot 1.1.11.
>  - a windows 2003 server with active directory for accounts and boxes
>
> I  use SMTP / SASL on my postfix 2.6 to authenticate my remote  
> laptop users (allow legitimate users to relay mail).
>
> To do that, I use SASL Dovecot fonctionnality and ldap request to  
> verify login/password who are declared on a server in Windows 2003  
> (Active Directory).
>
> It works fine with simple password but not with complex password. I  
> have a problem with special character in the password. Character  
> like ! * é are deleted before comparaison.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Regards