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petelewis

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[Solved] How to get msmtp to support NTLM auth.

Hi,

Been playing around with msmtp. For some reason the Arch version doesn't seem to support NTLM:

% msmtp --version
msmtp version 1.4.32
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
TLS/SSL library: GnuTLS
Authentication library: GNU SASL
Supported authentication methods:
plain scram-sha-1 cram-md5 gssapi external digest-md5 login 
IDN support: enabled
NLS: enabled, LOCALEDIR is /usr/share/locale
Keyring support: Gnome 
System configuration file name: /etc/msmtprc
User configuration file name: /home/pete/.msmtprc

According to the README in the source, it should support NTLM if compiled with GNU libgsasl, which Arch's is. I have a /usr/lib/sasl/libntlm.so (though this is owned by libsasl not gsasl).

I don't know much about SASL packages etc., but can anyone point me in the right direction? There are no obvious compile time flags I can see...

(I tried recompiling against openssl instead of gnutls just in case, but this didn't work either.)

Thanks.

Last edited by petelewis (2014-10-25 19:00:54)

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petelewis

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From: Birmingham, UK

Registered: 2008-08-14

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Re: [Solved] How to get msmtp to support NTLM auth.

Okay, I figured it out. There's a libntlm in the AUR which needs to be present at compile time for gsasl. A recompiled gsasl with this allows NTLM to be used in msmtp.

Guess it would be nice if this was included in the standard version...

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cgie

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Registered: 2014-10-28

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Re: [Solved] How to get msmtp to support NTLM auth.

Didn't work for me. Can you give some further information about what you were doig exactly? I guess this is a common issue and it would be nice to have it here for future reference.

cgie

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Registered: 2014-10-28

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Re: [Solved] How to get msmtp to support NTLM auth.

Disregard my above posting, it works exactly as you said, I just encountered some different error. I will probably write the process up myself. Thanks for your solution!