Re: Installation Question - NMH with Fastmail

I just verified and the PLAIN SO file is in the SASL library. 

Is the SMTP server 'smtp.fastmail.com'? I specified this in the .netrc file and -server switch for send. If this is correct, then I can't figure out what the problem might be.

I appreciate your time so far.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025, at 9:53 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025, at 10:32 AM, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2025, Diego wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > I'm providing and I believe is included in the SASL Cyrus library that was compiled with the package.
>> 
>> This might not be true, PLAIN mechanism is probably turned off in your SASL Cyrus library,
>> which can be enabled or disabled in the "configure" step.
> 
> I was going to say that is unlikely, but you are correct; PLAIN is not listed as a supported client SASL mechanism in the debug output. Which is unfortunate; I think PLAIN is the most common mechanism by far! I was going to say that sometimes the client SASL library can omit mechanisms when it thinks the connection is insecure, but as far as I can tell that's not true.
> 
> What OS are you on, client-wise? Some Linux systems put different SASL mechanisms in different packages so it might just be a matter of installing the correct package.
> 
> --Ken