[neomutt-users] sasl no longer valid?

[Andrew Sullivan]

Got it, thanks.  The website still seems to have the old documentation.  This is not a complaint; just noting that there might be more people coming who are puzzled.  Thanks for the answer and thanks to the developers who work on neomutt!

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On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:13:59AM +0300, Yousef Akbar wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:03:28PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>> This just began on startup:
>>
>> 	Option imap_authenticators: sasl is not a valid authenticator
>>
>> It happened after I upgraded to the latest available through brew (neomutt -v below).  Any clues?
>
>This error message comes from this PR which introduced validators for imap,
>smtp, pop, authenticators' config variables:
>
>https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/2624
>
>Now you need to specify which specific authentication method(s) you want to use
>matching either list of accepted methods: imap_authenticators or
>sasl_authenticators (in your case, probably the latter).
>
>	/**
>	 * sasl_authenticators - Authenticaion methods supported by Cyrus SASL
>	 */
>	static const char *const sasl_authenticators[] = {
>	  "ANONYMOUS",     "CRAM-MD5",       "DIGEST-MD5",    "EXTERNAL",
>	  "GS2-IAKERB",    "GS2-KRB5",       "GSS-SPNEGO",    "GSSAPI",
>	  "LOGIN",         "NTLM",           "OTP-MD4",       "OTP-MD5",
>	  "OTP-SHA1",      "PASSDSS-3DES-1", "PLAIN",         "SCRAM-SHA-1",
>	  "SCRAM-SHA-224", "SCRAM-SHA-256",  "SCRAM-SHA-384", "SCRAM-SHA-512",
>	  "SRP",
>	};
>
>For example:
>
>	# Try PLAIN and DIGEST-MD5, in that order
>	set imap_authenticators="plain:digest-md5"
>
>Alternatively, if your $imap_authenticators is empty, NeoMutt will fall back and
>try any auth method accepted by your server.
>
>Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes.
>
>--
>Yousef Akbar

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