I have the problem that I can't get email to authenticate (quite sure my mutt/exim4 are set up correctly). A perhaps related problem of immediate concern is that I was unable to log into Dev1Galaxy. So I asked for password update, but the password sent did not work. I ended by re-registering to the web site with a new UID and email address. When I tried to log in with this password that was sent when I re-registered, it failed as well.

It turned out that while I could not log in with  my Basilisk browser, I finally managed it with torBrowser.

Because my basic problem is that mutt fails because my downloads or outgoing messages can't be authenticated, I am anxious to solve the dev1Galaxy login problem with Basilisk in the hope its encryption problem is related to email authentication. I'm running Beowulf, but the dev1Galaxy problem also exists with a laptop running Debian Stretch and the PaleMoon browser.

I get: "Error during connection to dev1galaxy.org/ SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum possible length (Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG)" Also "Authenticity of the received data could not be verified." 
Is SSL enabled automatically in mutt/Beowulf? I had no problem with Ascii. Have things changed in this regard?