Package: libemail-sender-perl Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi Perl Maintainers,
If you want to use Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP as a transport for Email::Sender, and need to use authentication to login to your SMTP server (which is hopefully the default), you get an error message that you need the two modules MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL: | failed AUTH: Need MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL todo auth | | Trace begun at /usr/share/perl5/Email/Sender/Transport/SMTP.pm line 91 | Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP::_throw('Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP=HASH(0x21a7f98)', 'failed AUTH', 'Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x251d6d8)') called at /usr/share/perl5/Email/Sender/Transport/SMTP.pm line 69 | Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP::_smtp_client('Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP=HASH(0x21a7f98)') called at /usr/share/perl5/Email/Sender/Transport/SMTP.pm line 100 [...] As MIME::Base64 is contained in the 'perl' package itself, that leaves Authen::SASL from the libauthen-sasl-perl package. After installing that package, authenticating to the SMTP server succeeds. Please add libauthen-sasl-perl either as a Recomends: or a Suggested: to the libemail-sender-perl package! yours, youam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org