Bug 652864

Summary:	mail-client/mutt-1.9.4: curious iuse defaults
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	William Hubbs <williamh>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	net-mail+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2018-04-09 17:11:04 UTC

Hi,

I'm curious about some of your iuse defaults.

Is there any particular reason you are enabling sasl by default (I don't
know what it is or does), and what about lmdb?

Thanks,

William

Comment 1 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2018-04-09 17:15:53 UTC

Hi William,

sasl is necessary for authenticating to IMAP,SMTP,POP3 connections, which should be pretty often required, IMO.
lmdb is the fastest backend for hcache, which seriously speeds up Mutt over berkdb (which is a licence problem) and gdbm.

Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2018-04-09 17:56:36 UTC

Are you sure sasl is required for imap/pop3 authentication?
I've used mutt for imaps without it fine for years.

Comment 3 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2018-04-09 19:39:22 UTC

From configure:

            AC_MSG_ERROR([SASL support is only useful with POP or IMAP support])

It adds cram_md5 support over plain login, which is necessary by some servers.
But for SMTP support:

    mutt_error (_("SMTP authentication requires SASL"));

So, no I'm not sure about needing it for imap/pop :)

Comment 4 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2018-05-23 14:34:38 UTC

sasl is on because it is required for smtp, which is also IUSE-defaulted.

Do you think we can we close this bug?