Re: smtp authentication problem

[Alexander Zangerl]

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


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