From: Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: problems with passwords containing characters with UTF-8 / ASCII codes >= 127
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:17:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALyZvKzPHH=AD+LXoMcmu+Bd-cXZ7YaYLc3fA459Gq0ZFRSDNQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Today I wasted alot of time after being forced to change my password,
which is used for
the IMAP email server I use GNUS to connect to ; after the password
change, and
updating the password correctly in ~/.authinfo , GNUS was unable to
login with the
error 'NO LOGIN failed.' - attempts to turn on IMAP logging with :
(setq gnus-select-method
'(nnimap "outlook.office365.com"
(nnimap-record-commands t)
)
)
just resulted in the message '(inhibited)' being written to the '*imap
log*' buffer .
Unfortunately, it appears that password restrictrions meaning I had to choose
two 'special' characters resulted in me choosing the £ \uA3 :
'£' character
(decimal ASCII value 163).
Changing the password to remove the \xA3 character from it fixed the problem .
But I'd have no way of knowing that was the problem from anything
written by GNUS .
Some logs of IMAP commands of the server might have helped detect the problem ;
anyway something more than '(inhibited)' or 'NO LOGIN failed.' !
What does 'NO LOGIN failed.' refer to anyway ?
It is still unclear whether the '£' char in the password was causing
GNUS a problem
or whether it was causing the MS-Exchange server a problem. Unfortunately, the
password restriction guidelines are not more clear about what
'special' characters
are accepted.
Is there anyway to get gnus to be more verbose about the SSL encrypted
command / response traffic it is having with the server and precisely
why it fails ?
Maybe I should look at patching it to be more verbose when an IMAP error occurs.
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
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2015-11-16 16:17 Jason Vas Dias [this message]
2015-11-20 16:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
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