imap doesn't like my passwd

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 31/07/2020 11:56 janvv <jan at van-veldhuizen.nl> wrote:
> 
>  
> So happy I found this discussion.
> I spent a day on figuring out an issue with login into IMAP.
> It turned out that the { character in my password was the problem. Grrr...
> 
> The strange thing that I could successfully configure my IMAP connection my
> Outlook client. Only when I try to connect programmatically by using an
> ImapClient component (I tried several), then it fails by throwing that BAD
> invalid characters message.
> 
> So I wonder how I can make the login succeed WITHOUT changing my
> password....
> 
> 
> 
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Use AUTHENTICATE PLAIN <base64 of: \0username\0password>

e.g.

01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN AHVzZXJuYW1lAHBhc3N3b3Jk

Aki