accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

[maitra at email.com]

Hello,

So, I have this recipe set up for one of my accounts for sending email, and it must be using a special character in the password because Mutt fails (says something about SASL authentication failed). The same setup with a different account but same mail service, etc, works just fine. Indeed, the first account, when I do not specify the password in my .muttrc, but type it in through mutt, sends email through just fine, so I am thinking that there must be something in the password amongst the special characters used that mutt does not like reading from the rc file. I am wondering what those characters are, and how do I get around it in my muttrc? Probably an Escape sequence?

Sorry if this is not clear, but thanks in advance for your help, and best wishes,
Ranjan