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Re: trouble sending with 1.5.16



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On Friday, June 15 at 05:33 PM, quoth Greg Novack:
> I'm confused here.  I built 1.5.16 in order to try out the new built-in 
> smtp support.  So I used --enable-smtp.  I can't send any mail now, and 
> while trying to get things to work I've noticed the following:
>
> 1. When I use smtp_url=smtp://server.com:587, then mutt won't send mail and 
> tells me "SMTP session failed: blah blah No AUTH command has been given".

Hmmm, that's probably because you didn't specify a user. You probably 
already know, but it's like this:

     set smtp_url="smtp://user@xxxxxxxxxx:587/"

> 2. When I add a letter and switch to smtp_url=smtps://server.com:587, mutt 
> won't send mail and tells me "SSL failed: error: blah:SSL 
> routines:blah:unknown protocol".

Right, because 'smtps' is a different protocol that expects the 
connection to be encrypted from the very beginning (which is not what 
SMTP or SUBMISSION (the thing on 587) do).

> 3. Adding my username to the smtp_url does not help.

Hmmm...

> 4. I thought maybe I needed to specify an authentication method, but the 
> variable 'smtp_authenticators' is not recognized (!) by 1.5.16; it gives me 
> an "unknown variable" error when it tries to read that from my muttrc.

Ahh, this might be it. To get 'smtp_authenticators', you have to 
compile mutt with SASL support. Without SASL, mutt can't do things 
like encode your username and password in the ways that some SMTP 
servers demand. Try compiling with SASL (you may have to install the 
cyrus-sasl2 libraries first) and see if that doesn't help.

~Kyle
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