Bug 146162

Summary:	authentification doesn't work with passwords containing special characters (possibly limited to german umlauts)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Erunno <erunno>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.9.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Erunno 2007-05-30 17:50:17 UTC

Version:           1.9.7 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

When trying to connect to my IMAP account provided by web.de the authentification always fails.

My password contains special characters including german umlauts so I changed it temporarily to pure ASCII. After that I could log into my email account. Besides german umlauts I also use the characters '*' and '!' in said password.

The problem is limited to KMail (and curiously enough, Evolution) as it works flawlessly with both Thunderbird 2 and Opera M2 9.21.

With best regards
Erunno

Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2007-06-05 22:27:13 UTC

Should be fixed by:

>SVN commit 665551 by coolo: 
> 
>somehow the fix was forgotten - patch by dirk: 
>   with the recent utf8 decoder fix in Qt (CVE-2007-0242), kmail 
>   fails to restore passwords with '!' correctly from kconfig. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144814 ***