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 -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ g...@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub August 13, 1961: Better a wall than a war. And, while the GDR was still existing, no German troups and bombs have been killed in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Afrika...