Bug #2544 for Mail-IMAPClient: login bug -- quoting the password

Hi, first off thanks for a great module. This will be very handy for me. I've encountered a problem I can't find any reference to, so maybe it's a bug. Or at least a feature I don't understand how to use. Suggestions or pointers to good references are appreciated. During testing of a utility using imapclient, a user here ran into trouble logging in with a password that has a '*' character in it. I was able to reproduce the problem easily by creating a test account with a * in the password. This is legal for our Solaris 8 system as far as I know, and my test user can login fine through other methods, including telnet'ing to port 143 and logging in while quoting the password. We're running Perl 5.6.1, UW imapd. Here's a sample script demonstrating the problem: ################################################### #!/usr/local/bin/perl use Mail::IMAPClient; my $server = 'localhost'; my $user = 'adummy'; my $pass = 'bogus*pw'; my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new( Server => $server, User => $user, Password => $pass, Debug => 1); exit; ################################################### And here's the output: ################################################### Using Mail::IMAPClient version 2.2.7 and perl version 5.6.1 (5.006001) Read: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN] localhost IMAP4rev1 2002.334 at Fri, 9 May 2003 10:35:51 -0500 (CDT) Connect: Received this from readline: 0/OUTPUT/* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN] localhost IMAP4rev1 2002.334 at Fri, 9 May 2003 10:35:51 -0500 (CDT) Sending: 1 Login "XXXXXXXX" XXXXXXXX Sent 27 bytes Read: 1 BAD Missing or invalid argument to LOGIN ################################################### Another experiment demonstrates that this works fine when quoting the password: ################################################### ~> telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN] localhost IMAP4rev1 2002.334 at Fri, 9 May 2003 10:38:24 -0500 (CDT) a1 login "adummy" "bogus*pw" a1 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] User adummy authenticated ################################################### I've tried putting literal " characters around the password, but that doesn't seem to work. I've also tried instantiating 2nd imapclient class, and using the ->Quote method to quote the password, but that doesn't work either. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time. -- Phil Tracy Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA ptracy@northwestern.edu http://dopey.tss.northwestern.edu/tracy/