Bug 19436

Summary: Mutt does not depend on, or recommend, needed sasl2 plugins: "No authenticators available"
Product: Mageia Reporter: JanKusanagi <jan-bugs>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: Normal CC: jan-bugs, jani.valimaa, jquelin, marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: mutt-1.7.0-2.mga6.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description JanKusanagi 2016-09-22 05:44:44 CEST 
Description of problem:

Installing mutt does not automatically install, neither via dependencies nor recommends, any of the several lib64sasl2-plug-* packages, although some of them will be needed for basic functionality.

I have 2 mutt configurations, one for a GMX.com account, and another one for gmail.com. Both of them use smtps to send mail, with a config line such as:
smtps://user@email.tld@mailserver.tld

Trying to send e-mail with either account fails with "No authenticators available". After reading about possible causes, I realized I needed some extra SASL2 modules. I tried installing lib64sasl2-plug-login, since I remembered that mutt on my older Mageia 5 machine stated "(LOGIN)" as method while logging into the server, and then it worked as expected.

Other configurations might require other plugins, I don't know. But at least, having lib64sasl2-plug-login at least as a "recommend" sounds like a good idea.

I imagine there might be cases, where sending mail is done through another MTA, in which users would not want to have that dependency.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 Version     : 1.7.0
 Release     : 2.mga6


How reproducible:

Everytime, with GMX.com and Gmail.com accounts.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure mutt to send via smtps://
2. Try sending an e-mail
3. Mutt states "No authenticators available" without even asking for your password
Comment 1 JanKusanagi 2016-09-22 05:46:32 CEST 
That line about the mutt config should read:
set smtp_url = "smtps://user@email.tld@mailserver.tld"
JanKusanagi 2016-09-22 05:46:55 CEST

CC: (none) => jan-bugs

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2016-09-22 22:03:35 CEST 
Assigning to all packagers collectively, because of my impression that the maintainer is MIA.

@ Jérôme

Sorry if I'm wrong about that. I hope you're fine!

Feel free to assign this report to yourself if you read this.

CC: (none) => jquelin, marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 3 JanKusanagi 2016-09-23 16:45:54 CEST 
This seems to be fixed in Cauldron's updates.
Whoever fixed it might have forgotten to reply to the bug report :p

Anyway, thanks!
Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2016-09-28 19:04:30 CEST 
Fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
Resolution: (none) => FIXED