Bug 276101 – mail-client/mutt-1.5.20 does not send email from batch with smtp_url and smtp_pass enabled

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lubos Kolouch 2009-07-01 18:01:16 UTC]

After upgrade to 1.5.20 (from 1.5.19-r1, same USE flags) my scripts sending emails stopped working.

I do basically
echo "something" | mutt -s subject -a file1 file2 file3 -- recipient

mutt 1.5.20 fails with 
"Interactive SMTP authentication not supported"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have smtp_url and smtp_pass in your .muttrc
2. echo "something" | mutt -s subject -a file1 file2 file3 -- recipient with 


Actual Results:  
Error message
"Interactive SMTP authentication not supported"
, email is not sent

Expected Results:  
Email is sent like in previous mutt versions

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2009-07-01 18:50:09 UTC]

This is a bit of a shame, but I'm suffering from this Trac bug:
http://trac-hacks.org/ticket/3233

could you perhaps report this bug yourself on mutt's trac?  (http://dev.mutt.org/trac/)

[Comment 2 Lubos Kolouch 2009-07-01 18:53:18 UTC]

sure - going to report!

[Comment 3 Fabian Groffen 2009-07-01 19:08:09 UTC]

thx

[Comment 4 Fabian Groffen 2009-07-02 07:15:27 UTC]

bah, patch to this issue breaks the nntp patch

[Comment 5 Fabian Groffen 2009-07-02 08:44:56 UTC]

fixed in 1.5.20-r1, thanks!

[Comment 6 Lubos Kolouch 2009-07-02 10:30:35 UTC]

Yes, it works, thank you!