Cannot connect to my e-mail service's imap

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana <edbrowse@clul.router5.com>]

Hi, I use a paid e-mail service, cotse.net, which Thunderbird manages 
well, but edbrowse is having some problem. The starting lines of the 
respective mail account in my config file is as follows, including my 
comments for each setting I am trying to use:

mail{
imap
inserver=mail.cotse.net
# the following gives ssl connect error on libcurl:
inport=*993
# The following gives invalid login or password:
inport=^993

then the function goes on normally until the end. Could it be that 
edbrowse doesn't accept my password, which was generated by a password 
manager and contains characters like ^, +, and _?

Best,
Cleverson