imap doesn't like my passwd

James bjlockie at lockie.ca
Thu Apr 9 23:10:14 UTC 2015


I took the " out of the password and it works.
The other install worked with the " in the password.

On 04/09/2015 02:40 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, James wrote:
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>> 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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