Authenticated SMTP Failing if password contains Equal Sign

[aaron@futuretk.com]

I'm getting an error message when trying to send email alerts from the switch if the authenticated SMTP password contains an equal sign. I have not done extensive testing to see if I can identify any other characters that cause this. I tested this on switch with 1.5.0 through 1.5.4 firmware versions.

Thank you
-Aaron Clark

[Stephen]

As it turns out this is apparently a bug with the ssmtp package itself. I'll dig around to try and find a patch and push it to the next release.

Btw affected characters are ":" and "=", so for now it would be best to remove these characters from your smtp password.

[aaron@futuretk.com]

Thanks Stephen