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 Well, I'm stumped. I don't know anything about sasl. I have the following packages installed: gsasl-1.8.0nb8 GNU implementation of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer cyrus-sasl-2.1.27 Simple Authentication and Security Layer cyrus-saslauthd-2.1.27 Cyrus SASL plaintext authentication daemon The cyrus packages were installed based on a hint found on the 'net regarding mutt making this particular complaint about needing sasl, but so far, beyond simply pkgin-ing those packages I haven't a clue as to what further steps they might require in order to give mutt a hand. ==> BTW, I love how pkgin has been so improved since I first joined netbsd-land lo those many years ago. :) All best, -- Fraught with Portent
