On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:03:04PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:26 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > > It seems like this is a limitation in the IMAP protocol. From RFC 3501: > > I remember reading something about using UTF-8 and stringprep in > authentication strings, probably some SASL spec or something. Dovecot > should implement it some day.. But that won't help in any way if the > client doesn't send the password as UTF-8.
There has recently been a discussion about this on the imap-protocol mailing list: http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-protocol/2008-February/thread.html (they talk about LOGIN as well) Geert
