Sending an email with Mutt

Question

I'm trying to send an email with mutt but get an error like so:

TLSv1.2 connection using TLSv1/SSLv3 (ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256)
SASL authentication failed
Debugging at level 5.
Could not send the message.

My mutt config (~/.muttrc):

set ssl_force_tls=yes
set from = "[e-mail]"
set realname = "Darek"
set imap_user = "[e-mail]"
set imap_pass = "asmd0077"
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993"
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"
set postponed ="+[Gmail]/Drafts"
set header_cache =~/.mutt/cache/headers
set message_cachedir =~/.mutt/cache/bodies
set certificate_file =~/.mutt/certificates
set smtp_url = "smtps://[e-mail]@smtp.gmail.com:465/"
set smtp_pass = "asmd0077"
set move = no
set imap_keepalive = 900

As suggested elsewhere i've

• gnutls-bin (gnutls-3.4.13)

• openssl (openssl-1.0.2h)

• libsasl2 (cyrus-sasl-2.1.26)

installed.

PS. Why doesn't the debug option gives any info?

Answer 1

You can try to switch authentication to OAuth2 in your muttrc - doc

1. Use the oauth2.py script from Google's gmail-oauth2-tools
2. Visit following site Click on Create Credentials > OAuth client ID and continue until you get client_id and client_secret
3. Then run oauth2.py --generate_oauth2_token to get a refresh_token,

muttrc snippet:

set imap_authenticators="oauthbearer"
set imap_oauth_refresh_command="/path/to/oauth2.py --quiet --user=[email_address]\
    --client_id=[client_id] --client_secret=[client_secret]\
    --refresh_token=[refresh_token]"

Substitute pop or smtp for imap in the above example to configure for those.

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Or create application password and if it doesn't work either Let less secure apps access your account