[Dovecot] Support for spaces in plaintext passwords?

Simon teb.gbpribq-nob at zxz.se
Wed Sep 22 13:47:25 EEST 2010


Never mind! Propper reserch shows that Android mail seems to trim the
space all together. In orther words, is all googles fault and nothing
you/we can do to solve it.

> Hi!
>
> I have problems with my cellphone. It does not seem to quote the strings
> to the login command.
>
> I can logon using ie SquirrelMail but if i try to login using AndroidMail
> it just says "autentication failed". If i try maualy i get similar
> results.
>
> Changing password for test to "password-"
>
> a login test password-
> a OK Logged in.
>
> Changing password for test to "password "
>
> * OK Dovecot ready.
> a login test password    #here i type "password ", but without ""
> a NO Authentication failed.
>
> Uppon examining squirrelmails comunication it sends
> login "test" "password "
>
> I will of cause file a bugreport that Android Mail should use quoted
> strings when using 'login' autentication as per rfc2060 (which seems to
> allow it but not demand it).
>
> But i wonder if it is possible to work around this issue in Dovecot
> somehow?
>
>




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