remotepass with % must be escaped?

[Fabio Zanini]

Thanks! The question is then: do we need this feature?

It is not very intuitive for the user and basically undocumented on the
offlineimap website/manual. I am for turning it off.

Cheers,
Fabio


On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 02:51:26PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Probably a feature of
> http://docs.python.org/library/configparser
> that offlineimap enables (intentionally or otherwise).
> 
> Fabio Zanini wrote on Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 13:09:21 +0100:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > I have a password for an offlineimap account that includes the percent
> > sign (%). Apparently, OI asks me to double it:
> > 
> > % --> %%
> > 
> > lest an exception is raised. Indeed, doubling works (only one % is
> > read). Is this feature documented anywhere?
> > 
> > Thanks. Cheers,
> > Fabio
> > 
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