Re: mutt gmail smtp requires cyrus-sasl plain?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 08:41:42AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> Use of gmail smtp with mutt used to work long back for me. For a while it
> hasn't been working. I get the "No authenticators available" error.
> 
> Some search shows it requires cyrus-sasl with plain text auth, which is
> disabled in security/cyrus-sasl in pkgsrc Makefile.common without any
> option.
> 
> Is there any other way to get mutt work with gmail smtp?

You have to install some authenticator. Which one depends on your
provider, e.g. cy2-plain or cy2-scram are typical candidates.

Joerg