Topic: User authentication for mail server fails

[olddog11]

I have finally found out why I could not retrieve my mail through Thunderbird, (authentication always failed.)

I thought I would post the solution just in case anyone else falls into the same trap as I did.

My password included a £ sign and this character causes authentication to fail, when I changed it to a - (dash), everything worked fine. I do not know if there are other characters that do not work but if anyone has this problem it could be worth trying different ones.

Linux always encourages the use of strong passwords but it seems like you can make them too strong!

I gave up with SME Server at the time and used Zentyal but I'm not one to give up easily and now I'm back!

[Stefano]

My password included a £ sign and this character causes authentication to fail, when I changed it to a - (dash), everything worked fine. I do not know if there are other characters that do not work but if anyone has this problem it could be worth trying different ones.

please raise a bug for this, thank you

[cactus]

please raise a bug for this, thank you

And when done please post a pointer to it here for future readers. Thanks in advance.

[olddog11]

Stefano/Cactus
I have searched through the SME Bugzilla site and it appears that a bug report for this was originally raised on 25/10/2006 (Bug 2006) http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006

I do not fully understand bug reporting but I believe they should not be reported again if one already exists.

If that is the case do you want me to leave alone or do you still want me to report this?

[cactus]

If that is the case do you want me to leave alone or do you still want me to report this?

That is the case and we do not need you to report it again. However to keep posted on the progress on th ebug you could create a bugzilla account and add you account to the CC field so updates will be sent to your e-mailaddress.