On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 02:32:13PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote: > Dear Mr. Kuper,
Please don't address me as "Mr", but anyhow... >> I would suggest attempting the same workaround that you used for the >> IMAP password. I.e. escape the dollar sign in the smtp_pass field >> with a backslash. > > But haven't I already done this via these two lines in my .muttrc > file? > > set imap_pass="$password_variable" > set smtp_pass="$password_variable" > > The encrypted file <password_file>.cpt read at the start of .muttrc > contains one line, of the form: > > set password_variable='abc\$def' Yes, I think you are correct. Sorry for not spotting earlier that both those two lines in your .muttrc reference the same variable. Sam -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
