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- $Id: FAQ.Passwords_on_Unix.txt,v 1.7 2020/12/04 11:46:54 gilles Exp gilles $
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- Imapsync issues with passwords on Unix.
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- Q. On Unix, some passwords contain some weird *()$,";&~ characters.
- Login fails.
- R1. Enclose the password within single-quotes in the imapsync
- command line:
- imapsync ... --password1 'passw*()`"$,;&rd~'
- R2. Change the password to keep only f...ing normal characters.
- Make it long and random if strong security is your concern.
- R3. If R1 fails, with very old imapsync or old Mail::IMAPClient Perl module,
- try also using double-quotes within single-quotes. It will enclose
- the password within double-quotes in the imap LOGIN command:
- imapsync ... --password1 '"passw*()`$,;&rd~"'
- Old Mail::IMAPClient 3.37 is a bad horse having this issue solved
- by this double-quotes trick.
- fixed in 3.38 https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/Mail-IMAPClient
- version 3.38: Tue Feb 9 02:48:21 UTC 2016
- - rt.cpan.org#110273: failure to quote password values
- (regression introduced in 3.36 via fix for rt.cpan.org#100601)
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