[SOLVED] Hi everybody, On 02/26/2016 03:25 AM, P. A. López-Valencia wrote:
You don't need this:
set imap_authenticators=”gssapi:digest-md5:cram-md5:login” set smtp_authenticators=”gssapi:digest-md5:cram-md5:login”
You were right; I didn't need this. Without these entries I was getting "Login Failed" error. That's why I put these lines in my config file. After I removed these entries, I tried to connect but again failed with a "Login Failed" error. I checked journalctl and it showed that mutt was still trying to use DIGEST-MD5 authenticator (don't know why!). So I put in my .muttrc this line: set imap_authenticators="plain" and it worked. I haven't tested smpt yet but I hope it will work now too.
Outlook.com supports SSL for IMAP and TLS for SMTP on the receive port (567). And that brings me to point out: When you use a trustworthy SSL or TLS connection, you don't need password authentication thingamagicks. You use PLAIN auth. Outlook.com (and Gmail, Yahoo!, GMX and others) only support PLAIN auth over SSL or TLS.
Didn't know that. I read something like this about PLAIN authentication in some forum post but it wasn't explained quite clearly. Thanks guys for your help. Regards,