> Hi all! > > A user with german umlauts in his password is not able to login. If I use > the same user/password kombination on a pure imap session (telnet > localhost 143) it works. It also works with kmail from my linux > workstation, but that maybe leads to another point of view.
There are no standards that define use of 8bit information in IMAP authentication calls. Don't use 8bit symbols in passwords. kmail sends it in utf-8, your SquirrelMail sends it in iso-8859-1 or iso-8859-15. ΓΌ is 0xC3 0xBC in utf8 and 0xFC in iso-8859-1. > I think it could have to do with the character encoding that apache and/or > php is using. I would say apache and php are using the system environment > variables, but as it is not working I am not sure if they do so. > > Another character related problem I have is: A user gets a message with > umlaut characters and they are being displayed correctly. If he replies > on that message, the umlaut characters in the quoted text are being > mangled somehow. Here is a excerpt of the mail header (opened with kmail) .. > and from squirrelmails config.php: > > $squirrelmail_default_language = 'de_DE'; > $default_charset = 'iso-8859-15'; > $lossy_encoding = false; Turn on lossy encoding in SquirrelMail configuration or switch translation to utf-8. By default SquirrelMail does not convert messages in replies and forwards, if target character set does not support source charset symbols. I suspect that you are replying to utf-8 email. utf-8 supports more that 2 billion different symbols. iso-8859-1 supports less than 220. Code does not even test if conversion is possible, because test requires two conversion calls. $default_charset applies only to en_US translation. You can't use euro symbol in standard SquirrelMail package with German translation. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
