El día miércoles, diciembre 15, 2021 a las 08:25:46a. m. -0600, 
mai...@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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