Hi, Several months ago I upgraded mutt to v 1.5.2.1 from the previous release. I compiled from the tarball using the -enable pop -enable imap with sasl options. After this upgrade and using my previously working .muttrc files both for fastmail and another private email server, mutt returned "SASL authentication failed" upon sending.
The previous version worked. The sasl libraries were installed. this was on fedora 7 Struggled with this problem making small changes to the rc files, even removed mutt and re-installed previous version, no luck. I then changed to latest debian wheezy migrating the .muttrc files for fastmail and the private server. Same results, sasl authentication failed on both while sending. Here are I hope appropriate lines from my .muttfastmailrc file, some of this supplied by a helpfull person on this list a year or more ago. Removed my password of course. I'm tempted to dump the rc files and start with the new sample from the new install, but before I do that maybe somebody has a more productive approach. One question I can't answer, among many! is: the new install has the sasl2 libraries will mutt recognize that version and how do i know if that's happening properly? Follows hopefully helpfull lines from .muttfastmailrc Note: now using fastmail's web interface for sending, HATE IT!!!!!!!!! Another note, using the speakup speech screen reader and a braille display which work properly. I've left in some commented out lines as examples from which I started. # Mail/SMTP/IMAP Settings # set my_server=mail.messagingengine.com #set my_smtp_server=mail.messagingengine.com:465 set my_user=wa6iv...@fastmail.fm set my_pass = "" set header_cache=~/.mutt/hcache/fastmail #set imap_user=$my_user #set imap_pass = $my_pass set imap_user = wa6iv...@fastmail.fm set imap_pass = "4" # # SMTP server to relay to # NOTE: to get this to work, I had to install the libsasl2-modules package #set smtp_url ="smtps://$my_user:$my_pass@$my_smtp_server:465/" set smtp_url = "smtps://wa6iv...@mail.messagingengine.com:realpass:465/" Tom Fowle wa6iv...@fastmail.fm
