On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 10:30 -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > > I am very happy with Cyrus imapd since many years. I am using it to > > host all IMAP mail boxes of my company. I am using SASL and its > > tools (mainly saslpasswd2) for password management. The primary > > IMAP client in the company is Thunderbird. > > As soon as the password contained a paragraph character ("§"), > > Cyrus / SASL refused the connection due to a wrong password even > Works for me from a telnet to port 143 then issuing: > . login <user> <password> > replacing user and password with correct values. > But it does fail in Thunderbird. Yep, I have experienced this type of issue numerous times. A variety of clients fail to correctly encode the authentication credentials - particularly if you are using a chat-expect authorization like PLAIN or LOGIN. To have something that always works it is best to keep usernames and passwords to ASCII/UTF-7. This is not a SASL bug. This is an every-client-rolled-their-own issue. :( -- Meetings Coordinator, Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers 537 Shirley St NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503-1754 Phone: 616.581.8010 E-mail: awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG#D95ED383 Web: http://www.marp.org ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus