> Also,  allow  the user to select the characters, symbols and digits,
> i.e.  we  avoid  zero and "O", one and "l", v and w, V and W and the
> characters commonly used in connection with databases, such as %, ?,
> etc.

While  I  don't share your restrictions, I agree that more flexibility
for  the  system  admin or host admin is better than less. I don't see
any  reason  to use any newfangled syntax to denote the password mask,
however. Use standard regular expression syntax -- since using a regex
is   the  way  to  check  it  at  at  the  code  level,  it's  totally
transportable. Use and publish a basic default regex, and let the user
specify an override regex.

A related subfeature that I would suggest would be a user-configurable
password_strength_hint:  the  message  that  alerts the user when a pw
doesn't  fit  the  mask.  Webmail  should  never struggle to translate
English  from  a  crazy  regex,  nor  should  it  spit  back technical
gobbledygook to the user.

--Sandy


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