Hi all,

I've just been playing around with setting up IMAP on my Exchange Server and
trying to get curl to work (The sort of thing you obviously do on a Saturday
morning)...

The good news is I got it working but the IMAP4 protocol doesn't deal very
well with usernames that contain spaces - they have to be escaped with quote
marks whilst the POP3 and SMTP protocols have no problems.
 
So for example the plain text login command in POP3 is:

USER Steve Holme
PASS <password>

And SMTP and AUTH LOGIN would be:

AUTH LOGIN U3RldmUgSG9sbWU=
<base64 encoded password>

Whilst in IMAP4 the equivalent needs to be:

B LOGIN "Steve Holme" <password>

When running curl or even my own application I can cope with this by passing
in a string that simply contains the quote marks.

However, should libcurl detect this and escape the username itself or is it
outside its responsibility?

Cheers

Steve

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