Package: gsasl Version: 1.8.0-8 As I noted in Debian bug #810727, I need to use the proper hostname to connect to my SMTP server; otherwise Kerberos authentication will fail. But this wasn't easy to figure out, as the message returned by msmtp is kind of useless (it seems to just print whatever text is returned by GNU SASL): msmtp: GNU SASL: GSSAPI error in client while negotiating security context in gss_init_sec_context() in SASL library. This is most likely due insufficient credentials or malicious interactions.
This makes it seem like I used a bad password or the SMTP server didn't like the ticket. In fact, the Kerberos server didn't recognise the hostname, and according to a Wireshark dump returned a perfectly clear error message: krb-error pvno: 5 msg-type: krb-error (30) stime: 2016-01-11 16:08:01 (UTC) susec: 299239 error-code: eRR-S-PRINCIPAL-UNKNOWN (7) realm: EXAMPLE.COM sname name-type: kRB5-NT-SRV-HST (3) name-string: 2 items KerberosString: smtp KerberosString: smtp-server.EXAMPLE.COM I suggest a message like the following, based on the libkrb5 text: "Server not found in Kerberos database: smtp/smtp-server.example....@example.com" - Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gsasl depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.4 ii install-info 6.0.0.dfsg.1-4 ii libc6 2.21-6 ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.19-1 ii libgsasl7 1.8.0-8 gsasl recommends no packages. gsasl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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