IMAP passwords with " special character fail to authenticate

Submitted by Adam Bolte

Assigned to Florian Rivoal

Link to original bug (#12382)

Description

I had a long password with many special characters. One of those characters was the double-quote character ", and mailwatch (as packaged in Debian Jessie) was unable to authenticate to the server.

Next, I tried rolling my own package using the latest git master HEAD (commit d046d61e), re-added and reconfigured the applet and tried again. Still no luck authenticating.

Lastly, I removed the " character from my password (leaving all other characters including special characters in place), and finally mailwatch started working.

Version: git