GNU bug report logs - #1173
gnus/imap.el should quote quotes in password

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Aaron D. Ball" <adb <at> broad.mit.edu>

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:20:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Aaron D. Ball" <adb <at> broad.mit.edu>
To: 1173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1173: Acknowledgement (gnus/imap.el should quote quotes in  password)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:00:22 -0400

Looks like all I needed was to specify that the replacement is literal. 
 This patch let me read my mail for real.

--- lisp/gnus/imap.el~  2008-01-06 20:22:42.000000000 -0500
+++ lisp/gnus/imap.el   2008-10-15 14:58:40.890800000 -0400
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@
                          (lambda (user passwd)
                            (imap-ok-p (imap-send-command-wait
                                        (concat "LOGIN \"" user "\" \""
-                                               passwd "\""))))))
+ 
(replace-regexp-in-string "\"" "\\\"" passwd t t) "\""))))))

 (defun imap-anonymous-p (buffer)
   t)


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Aaron D. Ball <adb <at> broad.mit.edu>
Senior Systems Analyst
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
This bug report was last modified 16 years and 192 days ago.

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