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Re: SMTP AUTH and Outlook clients is not working

From: Rob Tanner (rtannerlinfield.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 01:54:04 CST


Victor,

Thanks! That did it!

-- Rob

On 03/31/2006 10:52 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:32:24PM -0800, Rob Tanner wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We currently have SMTP AUTH enabled on our Postfix servers. Because we
>> use LDAP for our password store, we only offer AUTH PLAIN as a mechanism
>> (my understanding is that AUTH PLAIN is the only option with LDAP). For
>> Thunderbird and Mulberry clients, this presents no problem. But OUTLOOK
>> and ENTOURAGE cleints fail to authenticate and complain about no auth
>> method available that the client understands. With googling, I've yet
>> to even find out what auth methods those Microsoft clients support.
>> What is the solution here?
>>
>>
>
> AUTH "LOGIN".
>
>

--

Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR