[Dovecot] dovecot+LDAP/AD encoding issue

[Wiethoff, Helge]

Hi Matthew,

> You mentioned Roundcube earlier. I notice this in Roundcube's default
> main.inc.php:
>
>   // Password charset.
>   // Use it if your authentication backend doesn't support UTF-8.
>   // Defaults to ISO-8859-1 for backward compatibility
>   $rcmail_config['password_charset'] = 'ISO-8859-1';
>
> ...so changing that to UTF-8 may fix the problem so far as Roundcube is
> concerned.
>
> But you may still face a problem with other clients. We just discussed
> Thunderbird's behaviour a few days back...

D'oh... This fixed it. I haven't taken this into account yet because of
the dumpio log, which told me this is already an UTF-8 encoded string...
> > [Tue Aug 07 10:56:37 2012] [debug] mod_dumpio.c(74): mod_dumpio:  dumpio_in (data-TRANSIENT): _pass=T%C3%A4st1234

Now the authentication works within Roundcube... Thanks for the hint.

Greetings,
Helge

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