[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#857945: mutt: IMAP login fails for mail host using TLS1.2 (ECDHE-RSA/AES-256-GCM/AEAD)

[Antonio Radici]

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 03:35:52PM +0100, Armin Haas wrote:
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.8.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> after upgrading mutt from version 1.7.2-1 to 1.8.0-1, I can no longer access
> my mail with IMAP on a mailhost which uses TLS1.2 (ECDHE-RSA/AES-256-GCM/AEAD).
> The mailhost claims I use a wrong username or password.
> 
> Reverting to mutt 1.7.2-1 fixes this and the IMAP login to the same mailhost
> using the same TLS1.2 setup works fine.
> 
> (In both cases, username and password are read from the same file, so there is
> no possibility of a typo.)
> 
> As a sidenote: I use another mail account on another host, which offers
> IMAP with TLS1.2 (RSA/AES-256-CBC/SHA1). Access to that one works fine
> with both versions.
> 

Hi,
does it work if you set imap_authenticators="login" in your config file?