accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

2021-12-15 Thread maitra
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. Inde

Re: accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

2021-12-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
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 authenticat

Re: accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

2021-12-15 Thread maitra
On Wed Dec15'21 03:38:02PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > From: Matthias Apitz > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:38:02 +0100 > To: mai...@email.com > Cc: Mutt Users' Mailing List > Reply-To: Matthias Apitz > Subject: Re: accommodating "possible special characters" in password? > > El día miércoles, diciembr

Re: accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

2021-12-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
If your mutt is compiled with DEBUG you could use the option '-d5' and will have in the file ~/.muttdebug0 the string it is using as IMAP password. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ g...@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub A

Re: accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

2021-12-15 Thread ny6p01
My guess is that slang reserves one or more of those characters for its own processing purposes. Perhaps read the slang docs to find out which ones..? Lee 😎 On Dec 15, 2021 at 7:03 AM, maitra wrote: On Wed Dec15'21 03:38:02PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > From: Matthias Apitz > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2

Re: accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

2021-12-15 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 08:25:46AM -0600, mai...@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

Re: accommodating "possible special characters" in password?

2021-12-15 Thread 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. Indee