accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 08:25:46AM -0600, maitra at email.com wrote:
>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?

In general, you'll want to use single quotes to avoid any kind of 
interpretation by Mutt when processing the string. e.g.:
   set smtp_pass = 'cr at zyp$ssw0rd'

If your password contains a single quote you'll have to so something 
like, e.g. for cr at zy'p$ssw0rd:
   set smtp_pass = 'cr at zy'\''p$ssw0rd'

If you use backtick evaluation to obtain the password from a program, 
you should put the backticks inside double quotes to avoid reevaluation:
   set smtp_pass = "`gpg --batch -q --decrypt ~/.passwords/mypass.gpg`"

See <http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#muttrc-syntax> for more information 
about muttrc syntax.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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