Re: mutt wants sasl

[ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 12:44:23PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> The big picture: I am now configuring my new amd64 ver. 
> 7.1.2 install on that recalcitrant old eMachine box about 
> which I have lately so plagued this list.
> 
> One priority of course is email. While working in another 
> OS I have found great utility in mutt's relatively new 
> smtp facility. The pertinent obfuscated lines in my 
> .muttrc are:
> 
> set smtp_url="smtp://my_username@smtp.my_smtp_host:587/"
> set smtp_pass="my_password"
> 
> These work on that other OS I mentioned, and work with the 
> two different smtp hosts to which I access. Mutt now 
> complains:
> 
> No authenticators
> mutt needs sasl

you need the packages

cyrus-sasl
and additionally the cy2-xxx that implement the authentification method
that your server demands. Most likely, cy2-plain.

Of course, your mutt package needs to be built with cyrus-sasl support.
What does pkg_info mutt say?

	-is