Re: Password length restriction

Bjoern Voigt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zsolt Barat wrote:
> just wanted to ask if there is a known restriction of the password
> length for authenticating to a POP3 server.
>
> I recognized problems while using a password with more than 30
> characters, authenticating to gmx.net servers.
>
> I'm using following fetchmail version:
>
> 6.3.26+POP2+GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS+KRB5
>
> On openSUSE Leap 15.1
Fetchmail 6.3.26 defines a maximum password length of 64 byte:

fetchmail.h*:*
#define             PASSWORDLEN     64      /* max password length */

Greetings,
Björn


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