RE: cURL and IMAP - accessing a shared mailbox in an IMAP Exchange Server

Might want to try escaping the backslash via URL encoding or something similar.

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> From: curl-users <curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se> On Behalf Of Allan
> Quadros via curl-users
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2020 12:33 AM
> To: Norton, Mike <mikenorton_at_pwsd76.ab.ca>
> Cc: Allan Quadros <allanvcq_at_gmail.com>; the curl tool <curl-
> users_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Subject: Re: cURL and IMAP - accessing a shared mailbox in an IMAP
> Exchange Server
>
> Thanks Mike. I've tried these approaches and other variations but none of
> them seems to work.
> "quant" is the shared mailbox in this case:
>
> curl --url "imaps://outlook.office365.com/" --user
> "company.com\allan\quant"
> curl --url "imaps://outlook.office365.com/" --user
> "company.com/allan/quant"
> curl --url "imaps://outlook.office365.com/" --user
> "company.com\allan_at_company.com\quant:pass"
> curl --url "imaps://outlook.office365.com/" --user
> "company.com\allan_at_company.com\quant:pass"
> curl --url "imaps://outlook.office365.com/" --user
> "company.com/allan_at_company.com/quant:pass"
> curl --url "imaps://outlook.office365.com/" --user
> "allan_at_company\quant_at_company:pass"
> curl --url "imaps://outlook.office365.com/" --user
> "allan_at_quant@company:pass"
>
> and many many many other combinations...
>
> I am inclined to think that curl is not interpreting the user argument in the
> way the server is expecting, like you said.
>
> Allan
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:51 PM Norton, Mike <mikenorton_at_pwsd76.ab.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > > --user "allan_at_company.com\sharedmailbox:mypass"
> >
> > My version of Curl's manpage says this about --user:
> >
> > "To specify the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN
> (User Principal Name) formats. For example, EXAMPLE\user and
> user_at_example.com respectively."
> >
> > So I wonder if Curl is noticing the backslash and interpreting your input as
> domain="allan_at_company.com" and username="sharedmailbox". Or maybe
> Curl is NOT interpreting it that way but that's how Exchange is expecting it.
> >
> > Maybe Curl is interpreting your input as username="allan" and
> domain="company.com\sharedmailbox".
> >
> > Have you tried any variations of the down-level logon name format? E.g.
> "COMPANY\allan\sharedmailbox"? Or maybe the reverse? E.g.
> "sharedmailbox_at_allan@company.com"? Just some guesses to maybe trick
> whatever wrong interpretation is happening into behaving.
> >
> > -mn
> >
>
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