Re: [msmtp-users] cyrus-sasl and msmtp

[Martin Lambers <marlam@...23...>]

On Tue, 19. Jun 2007, 21:40:25 +0300, Nikolay Vladimirov wrote:
> For full funcionaliy I need to compile with GSSAPI, DIGEST-MD5, and
> NTLM authentication methods.

FYI, the DIGEST-MD5 mechanism is deprecated (see for example the thread
at http://www.imc.org/ietf-sasl/mail-archive/msg02799.html and the GNU
SASL NEWS file at
http://josefsson.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gsasl/NEWS?rev=1.206&view=markup)

The NTLM mechanism is obsolete, non-standard, undocumented and Microsoft
specific. That's probably the reason why the Debian people
package GNU SASL without NTLM support (so that the Debian msmtp package
lacks NTLM support, too). I never heard any complains about that, and
even Microsoft mail servers support GSSAPI nowadays, so I think the
Fedora users could live without NTLM support, too.

The GSSAPI method is the only additional method that is really nice to
have. It probably has the most library prerequisites of these three
mechanisms in GNU SASL, but maybe you can drop one or two prerequisites
if you disable DIGEST-MD5 and NTLM.

Martin