diff --git a/msmtp.changes b/msmtp.changes
index f08a887..e53020d 100644
--- a/msmtp.changes
+++ b/msmtp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May 14 12:37:47 UTC 2020 - Marcus Rueckert <mrueckert@suse.de>
+
+- gnu sasl support needs to be enabled with a configure option
+  (boo#1170516) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 23 08:43:57 UTC 2020 - Benoît Monin <benoit.monin@gmx.fr>
 
diff --git a/msmtp.spec b/msmtp.spec
index 514fedf..0b4667d 100644
--- a/msmtp.spec
+++ b/msmtp.spec
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ done
 CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fstack-protector -fPIE"
 export LDFLAGS="-pie"
 %endif
-%configure --docdir="%{_docdir}/%{name}" --with-tls=gnutls --without-msmtpd
+%configure --docdir="%{_docdir}/%{name}" --with-tls=gnutls --without-msmtpd --with-libgsasl
 make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1
 
 %install