[Dovecot] Password and special caracter

[Patrick Domack]

Doubtful it's an smtp issue, as all authenication over smtp uses base64
I'll see if I can cause the issue in my setup though.


Quoting Joseph Yee <jyee at ca.afilias.info>:

> 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
>
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