imap doesn't like my passwd

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Thu Apr 9 06:40:10 UTC 2015


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On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, James wrote:

> 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

Does your password contain the " quote? If not, enclose the password in 
"". Or try the literal form:

1 login user {##}
password

where ## is the number of octets of password

> The secure password used to work but it was a different architecture (x86_64 
> I think).
> The current architecture is armhf.

architecture of the server or client?
Maybe you need to re-create the password store?

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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