"§"-sign in passwords

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at curecanti.org
Wed Sep 10 05:46:29 UTC 2014


Quoting InterNetworX | Pascal Heverhagen <ph at inwx.de>:

> Hey users,
>
> I've got a constellation with dovecot, postfix, froxlor and roundcube.
>
> My problem is, when a user has got a paragraph sign in his password,
> every mail client tells him, that he entered a wrong password. The log
> says as usually "password mismatch". did anyone else fixed this
> problem already?

non-ASCII characters are only supported in the AUTHENTICATE command.   
My guess is that your MUA is trying to send those characters via the  
LOGIN command.

michael



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