How to enter "special" characters in the password file?

Question

What is the range of characters allowed in the password field in the password.client file in Exim4?

My password has the :, ! and . characters. Are these permitted as is? If not, how do I encode them?

PS: The credentials are for Exim as a client to a "smarthost".

Can you say what more details you require to be able to understand or answer the question? — Old Geezer, Apr 16 '22 at 04:55

Jasen · Answer 1 · 2022-04-15T02:33:56.333

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. and ! should work : is not allowed.

It's probably possible to enable : by modifying the configuration file, but the code there is pretty messy so I don't want to try.

The code looks like : should work, but it doesn't.

edited Apr 15 '22 at 02:33

answered Apr 15 '22 at 02:11

Jasen

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