Password containing backslashes need to have them doubled to have them properly interpreted by the imap server.
A password terminating with a blackslash used to trigger this error:
IMAP command 'LOGIN <user> <pass>' returned response (BAD) - Missing '"'
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
imap-send.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/imap-send.c b/imap-send.c
index b2d0b849b..7fde6ec96 100644
--- a/imap-send.c
+++ b/imap-send.c
@@ -926,6 +926,32 @@ static int auth_cram_md5(struct imap_store *ctx, struct imap_cmd *cmd, const cha
return 0;
}
+static char* imap_escape_password(const char *passwd)
+{
+ const unsigned passwd_len = strlen(passwd);
+ char *escaped = xmalloc(2 * passwd_len + 1);
+ const char *passwd_cur = passwd;
+ char *escaped_cur = escaped;
+
+ do {
+ char *next = strchr(passwd_cur, '\\');
+
+ if (!next) {
+ strcpy(escaped_cur, passwd_cur);
+ } else {
+ int len = next - passwd_cur + 1;
+
+ memcpy(escaped_cur, passwd_cur, len);
+ escaped_cur += len;
+ next++;
+ *(escaped_cur++) = '\\';
+ }
+ passwd_cur = next;
+ } while(passwd_cur);
+
+ return escaped;
+}
+
static struct imap_store *imap_open_store(struct imap_server_conf *srvc, char *folder)
{
struct credential cred = CREDENTIAL_INIT;
@@ -1090,7 +1116,7 @@ static struct imap_store *imap_open_store(struct imap_server_conf *srvc, char *f
if (!srvc->user)
srvc->user = xstrdup(cred.username);
if (!srvc->pass)
- srvc->pass = xstrdup(cred.password);
+ srvc->pass = imap_escape_password(cred.password);
}
if (srvc->auth_method) {
