On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Torsten Flammiger <nos...@netfg.net> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to use mutt with my company's SMTP server (IMAP works fine). >> >> I always get SASL authentication failed when sending message. > > I use msmtp. A simple yet effective command line smtp utility. > It works fine with SSL/TLS here > > .muttrc: > set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" > > .msmtprc > account default > host <YOUR SMTP RELAY> > port 25 > from <your from address> > auth on > user <SALS username> > password <YOUR PW> > tls on > tls_starttls on > # logfile ~/.msmtp.log ## if you need to > tls_certcheck off > > See also: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/doc/msmtp.html
Thanks. Previously I used esmtp with mutt, but now since the functionality is built in mutt, I tried to use it. So I tried msmtp and it worked just fine with this configuration, thanks a lot. Now I need to find out what the difference is.
