bug#18842: 24.4; gnus not handling passwords with double quotes in .authinfo

[Andreas Schwab]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:54:29 +0100, David Spångberg wrote:
>> After a recent update of emacs gnus fails to connect to a mail server
>> with login information listed in one of the "~/.authinfo" or
>> "~/.authinfo.gpg" files. The password in the file is quoted and contains
>> an escaped double quote. Something like this:
>
>>   machine example.org login testuser password "test\"password" port 12345
>
> IBM says[1]:
> If the password phrase itself contains a quotation mark, use
> the other style of quotation mark to enclose the password phrase.
>
> I.e.: 'test"password'
>
> The rule is enough to handle such a case, isn't it?

Until you start using both. :-)

Andreas.

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