"SASL authentication failed" with mutt and Gmail, why?

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Published on 2011-11-23T00:31:18Z Indexed on 2011/11/23 2:09 UTC
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I am confused by this, I have installed a lot of new pkgs and followed some tutorials after googling but I keep getting this kind of SASL -err. I am not sure whether the mistake is in some Gmail settings or should I check some settings in Ubuntu?

I thought this tutorial here would have solved this problem (i am simply trying to set up local mail reading with mutt, using gmail) but I cannot see the instructed things with telnet: "250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN" so that is why it is not working.

$cat .muttrc

set imap_user = "[email protected]"  
set imap_pass = "pass"   
#set smtp_url = "smtp://[email protected]:465/"  
set smtp_url = "smtp://[email protected]:587/"    
set smtp_pass = "pass"  
set from = "[email protected]"  
set realname = "name"    
set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993" 
set spoolfile = "+INBOX"  
set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"    
set move = no

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