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
