imap doesn't like my passwd

James bjlockie at lockie.ca
Thu Apr 9 04:37:55 UTC 2015


It is not architecture related, my phone uses the same account and it 
used to work.
It is either IMAP or Dovecot.


On 04/09/2015 12:35 AM, James wrote:
>
> I spent days on this problem.
> I have dovecot setup to use SSL and IMAP.
> I also have a pop account that I had no trouble getting working.
> Both use PAM authentication on Linux.
> openssl s_client -connect localhost:993
> a login test_user test_secure_password
> The response I got back was:
> a BAD Invalid characters in atom
>
> I changed the password to "abc" and it worked.
>
> The secure password used to work but it was a different architecture 
> (x86_64 I think).
> The current architecture is armhf.
> It may be different versions of the software too.
>
> Dovecot v2.1.7
>



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