accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

[Greg Marks]

> 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?

I had what sounds like a similar problem, described here:

   http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20200309/001516.html

The solution was provided here:

   http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20200309/001518.html

With any luck, this will also resolve this new problem!

Best regards,
Greg Marks
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