Incompatible IMAP authentication methods

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Sat Mar 18 02:31:24 UTC 2023


On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 11:53:05PM +0100, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
>I am trying to read emails on an exchange server through IMAP.
>
>The server only accepts the PLAIN and XOAUTH2 authentication methods,
>whereas mutt offers SASL, GSSAPI, CRAM-MD5 et LOGIN.

When compiled with SASL support (either GNU or Cyrus), Mutt can use the 
PLAIN authentication method provided by the library.

Try setting imap_authenticators='plain' and see if that works.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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