> On 31/07/2020 11:56 janvv <j...@van-veldhuizen.nl> wrote: > > > So happy I found this discussion. > I spent a day on figuring out an issue with login into IMAP. > It turned out that the { character in my password was the problem. Grrr... > > The strange thing that I could successfully configure my IMAP connection my > Outlook client. Only when I try to connect programmatically by using an > ImapClient component (I tried several), then it fails by throwing that BAD > invalid characters message. > > So I wonder how I can make the login succeed WITHOUT changing my > password.... > > > > -- > Sent from: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/
Use AUTHENTICATE PLAIN <base64 of: \0username\0password> e.g. 01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN AHVzZXJuYW1lAHBhc3N3b3Jk Aki