Re: Is SMTP with no authentication possible?
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:14:21PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday, September 20 at 07:05 PM, quoth Chris G:
> >In the end my build of mutt with SASL and the following in muttrc
> >seem to work:-
> > set smtp_pass='xxxxxxxxxxx'
> > set smtp_url='smtp://cgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> >
> >No smtp_authenticators setting seems to get it to work.
> >
> >It still seems a bit odd that you have to compile it with SASL in
> >order to get mutt to work with an SMTP server that doesn't require
> >authentication.
>
> Why doesn't removing the username from the equation work?
>
> unset smtp_pass
> unset smtp_user
> set smtp_url='smtp://mail3.atroad.com'
>
Well it might do but I'd have to type my user name in every time I
connected which would become a bit of a bore after a while.
--
Chris Green