Re: spaces in passwords

[Steve Dorner <[e-mail]>]

Ok, I grabbed the new draft.  Here's what it says:

   Commands in the POP3 consist of a keyword possibly followed by an
   argument.  All commands are terminated by a CRLF pair.  Keywords and
   arguments consist of printable ASCII characters separated by whitespace
   (one or more consecutive SPACE and/or TAB characters).

So,

        pass foo bar

Has two arguments, "foo" and "bar".  If you treat this as having one
argument "foo bar" you are doing something sensible but in violation of
letter of the spec.

As for whether this is worth fixing, I dunno.  I get one piece of mail a
month, give or take, from people who can't understand why their
space-infested password doesn't work.  What level of frustration this
indicates in the world at large, who knows?

If anybody else cares, say so.  If not, I'll drop it.

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Steve Dorner, Qualcomm Incorporated
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