accommodating "possible special characters" in password?
Matthias Apitz
guru at unixarea.de
Wed Dec 15 14:38:02 UTC 2021
El día miércoles, diciembre 15, 2021 a las 08:25:46a. m. -0600, maitra at email.com escribió:
> 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
Ranjan,
Without knowing your password string it's only guessing (and I know that you
can't post here your password :-)). I would avoid as chars in a password
any UTF-8 multibyte char and also only use ASCII printable chars. Best
solution for you is just changing the password in your mail server
following this rule.
matthias
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