[Dovecot] Password authentication and character set

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:03:04PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:26 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > It seems like this is a limitation in the IMAP protocol.  From RFC 3501:
> 
> I remember reading something about using UTF-8 and stringprep in
> authentication strings, probably some SASL spec or something. Dovecot
> should implement it some day.. But that won't help in any way if the
> client doesn't send the password as UTF-8.


There has recently been a discussion about this on the imap-protocol
mailing list:

http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2008-February/thread.html

(they talk about LOGIN as well)

	Geert