[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#741166: wrong debian defaults documentation for smtp_authenticators

Antonio Radici antonio at debian.org
Fri Aug 26 06:23:27 UTC 2016


tag 741166 +confirmed pending
thanks

On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 03:35:12PM +0100, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.5.22-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> man muttrc says:
> 
>        smtp_authenticators
>               Type: string
>               Default: “”
> 
>               This  is a colon-delimited list of authentication methods mutt may attempt to use to log in to an SMTP server, in the order mutt should try them.  Authenti‐
>               cation methods are any SASL mechanism, e.g.  “digest-md5”, “gssapi” or “cram-md5”.  This option is case-insensitive. If it is  “unset”  (the  default)  mutt
>               will try all available methods, in order from most-secure to least-secure.
> 
>               Example:
> 
> 
>               set smtp_authenticators=”digest-md5:cram-md5”
> 
> 
>               Note: On Debian systems, this variable defaults to the example mentioned. This file is managed by the “ca-certificates” package.
> 
> which comes from debian/patches/debian-specific/document_debian_defaults.patch:
> 
> @@ -2825,6 +2838,9 @@ struct option_t MuttVars[] = {
>    ** .ts
>    ** set smtp_authenticators="digest-md5:cram-md5"
>    ** .te
> +  ** .pp
> +  ** \fBNote:\fP On Debian systems, this variable defaults to the example
> +  ** mentioned. This file is managed by the ``ca-certificates'' package.
>    */
>  # endif /* USE_SASL */
>    { "smtp_pass",       DT_STR,  R_NONE, UL &SmtpPass, UL 0 },
> 
> AFAICT this belongs to the "ssl_ca_certificates_file" option.

This can be fixed pretty easily in the next upload.



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