On Thu, September 3, 2009 2:21 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
>
>
> mistel wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> my mail provider uses SquirrelMail Version 1.4.3a. I changed my
>> password
>> and the new password contains the special characters "\", "{" and "}".
>> Unfortunately, I can not log in with the new password.
>> I searched and found out, that squirrelmail has problems with special
>> characters, but is there an possibility, to log in with the new
>> password?
>> The problem is, that I can not reset the password by contacting the
>> administrator etc.
>> I thought about the character encoding (I use Mozilla Firefox 3.010
>> and
>> Ubuntu 9.04) and tried some encodings (utf-8, iso-8859,...) and also
>> other
>> Browsers (Konqueror and the Microsoft internet explorer 6) but nothing
>> worked.
>> Is there a chance, to use some "trick" to log in?
>>
>
> Character encoding matters only if you use non-ascii symbols. And if you
> did
> that, you should be unable to login with standard IMAP LOGIN command
> used in
> SquirrelMail by default.
>
> Test login process without SquirrelMail. Use telnet connection to IMAP
> or
> POP3 services.To test, do this (IMAP): telnet mailserver 143 (if unsecure; for secure login change 143) A login $logname PW 01 select INBOX/mailbox name 02 fetch M# rfc822 03 logout You can also try 03 list "" or "foldername" FYI, here's the same for testing POP3: telnet mailserver 110 USER yourloginname PASS yourpw QUIT There are get and display type commands for POP3, too, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. have fun testing Karl > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/password-with-special-characters-tp25177564p25271665.html > Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > ----- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines > List address: [email protected] > List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > --- Karl Pearson [email protected] Owner/Administrator of the sites at http://ourldsfamily.com --- "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." --- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. --Benjamin Franklin --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
