From: Adam Young (adamvbfx.com)
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 06:51:56 CST

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:54:55 +0100
Lutz Jaenicke <Lutz.Jaenickeaet.TU-Cottbus.DE> wrote:

> > I've been a long time lurker on this list, and I'm looking for an answer I
> > really can't find. I'm not really sure what I'm looking for though, since
> > the errors I'm getting aren't very verbose. Anyways, the basic's of it
> > is... my userbase are generally going to be using Outlook Express, which I'm
> > told uses LOGIN for SMTP-AUTH, so I definately want to go the way of forcing
> > a TLS smtp session to keep passwords protected. I want to use the saslauthd
> > method to be able to authenticate against the /etc/passwd file.
> >
> > A little extra information. This excerpt from logs was an Outlook Express
> > mail client with "My mail server requires authentication" checked, and "My
> > server requires a secure connection SSL" checked, as well as explicitly
> > defining the port to connect to as "587".
>
> This does not work with Outlook (Express). On ports except for port 25
> Outlook does not use the STARTTLS extension to SMTP but uses the deprecated
> "SSL wrapper style" mode similar to the https operation.
> Please use port "smtps" instead. Examples for "master.cf" setup are in the
> Postfix/TLS distribution and documentation.

Thanks Lutz. I was hoping this wasn't the case but this will at least solve my
issue. Your reply is much appreciated.

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