Hello!
I use mail/mutt to log into my Yahoo mail account.
The latest mail/mutt update introduced security/cyrus-sasl2 as a new dependency (option SASL=on). Since then, it started showing this on startup:
... which I guess means my user name and password are transmitted in plain text, right?
I've never had the imap_authenticators option before in muttrc. The only one that works at all now (other than plain) is
The sasl(3) documentation is so huge I don't even know where to start looking.
How secure is this login and is there any better option?
By the way, I've been using the following settings:
So as I understand it, the above encrypts the plain-text login information through SSL/TLS. Am I worrying for nothing?
Any help would be appreciated.
I use mail/mutt to log into my Yahoo mail account.
The latest mail/mutt update introduced security/cyrus-sasl2 as a new dependency (option SASL=on). Since then, it started showing this on startup:
Code:
Authenticating (PLAIN)...I've never had the imap_authenticators option before in muttrc. The only one that works at all now (other than plain) is
Code:
set imap_authenticators="login"The sasl(3) documentation is so huge I don't even know where to start looking.
How secure is this login and is there any better option?
By the way, I've been using the following settings:
Code:
set ssl_force_tls=yes
set folder="imaps://imap.mail.yahoo.com:993/"Any help would be appreciated.