From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
Cc: 34458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34458: 27.0.50; Gnus's nnimap truncates password
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 15:01:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ef3ldb9e.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ztplzo8.fsf@aminb.org> (Amin Bandali's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:49:43 -0500")
Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
> It seems that when the combined length of username + password for an
> imap login exceeds certain length, nnimap tries to log into the server
> with a truncated password.
I've looked at the code, and I can't see where it would be truncating
the password...
> I was wondering why Gnus wasn’t able to log into the server, though I
> had made sure I was using the correct username and password. Upon
> looking into server logs, I noticed that the login attempts were made
> using VAdlmhgtPX3RQpV2bfr8ilj6Qpt as the password (notice that r0Omz is
> missing at the end) instead of the correct full password.
Is it possible that the server is truncating the password (before
logging it, even)? What IMAP server are you using?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-22 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-12 16:49 bug#34458: 27.0.50; Gnus's nnimap truncates password Amin Bandali
2019-06-22 13:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-06-22 13:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-29 18:32 ` Amin Bandali
2019-07-04 13:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-12 23:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-13 3:20 ` Amin Bandali
2019-07-13 3:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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