# THINGS TO REMEMBER WHEN YOU’RE IN MYSTERIOUS ISSUES
#PASSWORD AND SPECIAL CHARS
Suppose the following scenarios:
- Oracle rejects your password.
- ssmt command rejects connection to the email server
Check if the password has special characters.
For instance, oracle’s login fails if the password has ‘@’ char.
If running ssmt, like this:
echo “Subject: hello” “Test mail from ssmpt” | ssmtp username@gmail.com -v
it may return the following failure message due to the presence of a hash (#):
ssmtp: Authorization failed (535 5.7.8 …
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