On Saturday, 18 September 2010 at 21:20, Michael Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get mutt's smtp support to work with my department's new > Exchange server. > > According to the current draft documentation, Thunderbird can be configured > as follows: > <http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/it/email/exchange/2010/ThunderbirdSetup.htm>. I > have confirmed that this configuration works. > > So, having read Kyle Wheeler's very useful post > <http://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=124285017604463&w=2>, I have turned the > Thunderbird instructions into the following smtp_url: > > set smtp_url="smtp://[email protected]@mail.physics.ox.ac.uk:587" > > With this configuration, when I send mail in mutt, the status bar says "SSL > connection using TLSv1/SSLv3 (AES128-SHA)" (which sounds promising) then > "Authenticating (NTLM)", then prompts me for my password. I give this, but > after a suspiciously long delay ~10s, I get the error "SASL authentication > failed".
If your mutt was built with --enable-debug (mutt -v will include the line +DEBUG if so), you can run mutt -d2 to get a trace of mutt's conversation with the SMTP server in ~/.muttdebug0. There should be more clues in there.
