Just a word of thanks from the original stirrer to all who have helped sort this out. These actions seem to me to be the obviously best answers to the issues.
Tony -- Tony Stoneley Preferred email address a...@cam.ac.uk ...not withstanding anything any ISP may force into my "From:" field ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Zangerl wrote on Wed, 09 Feb 2022 19:14:19 +1000 On Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:27:49 -0500, Ken Hornstein writes: >I suspect the thinking is that since many packages link against cyrus-sasl >but users might not necessarily USE cyrus-sasl (and certainly nmh >falls into that category) you shouldn't install those mechanisms >unless you specifically want to. But then you get into this situation. >I'm not sure what the right answer is. the libsasl2-modules package costs only 260kb on disk (and just one possible extra dependency: libssl). i decided that on a system with email client duties having the modules installed is preferrable to weird, wonderful and hard to diagnose auth failures; the freshly uploaded vesion nmh version 1.7.1-11 therefore depends on libsasl2-modules (and has got the auth= patch). regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 2FCCF66BB963BD5F + http://snafu.priv.at/ > What should I do ......the machine can't find the program iexplorer.exe... Breathe a sigh of relief. -- Arthur Hagen in no.www