On 14/11/2013 18:16, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-11-14 10:55 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: >> I had been trying user:sec...@mail.some.domain:587, and it kept failing >> as if it wasn't using STARTTLS... then I started down a rabbit hole of >> trying to configure postfix's sasl client, then decided that was way >> overkill for what I was trying to accomplish... >> >> Then in a flash of inspiration, I decided to try 100587 for the port and >> it just worked. > > Ok, another bump... > > I had changed the password to something simple for testing, and now, > after changing it back to my strong password, it fails with: > > "invalid SMTP AUTH configuration, trying unauthenticated" > > The password has two special characters in it that I'm sure are > problematic - a colon and a pipe symbol (I use a password generator, and > would prefer to use my same system without modification, if possible) - > so, how can I 'wrap' it so that it doesn't matter what characters are in > the password? > > I tried setting the username+password as a variable and using that: > > USER_PASS="user:pass" > > But it still failed with the same error..
Quoting rules. Ugh. I've found only two methods that work in real life, neither satisfactory: 1. Start almost randomly escaping suspect characters with single, quotes, double quotes and backslashes till you find a combination that works. Then remove things one at a time and try infer what the rules area 2. Read the code Not the answer you were looking for, sorry about that, but I got nothing better. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
