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Re: SASL vs. M$ Outlook and Outlook Express

From: Rene van Hoek (reneactive8.nl)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2007 - 07:56:35 CST


Michael Wang wrote:
> Rene van Hoek wrote:
>> I did an telnet to your machine and that seems ok:
>>
>> Leto:/Volumes renevanhoek$ telnet mail.kovarovi.org 25
>> Trying 194.212.102.169...
>> Connected to bimbo.kovarovi.org.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> 220 mail.kovarovi.org ESMTP Postfix
>> EHLO test.a8.nl
>> 250-mail.kovarovi.org
>> 250-PIPELINING
>> 250-SIZE 10240000
>> 250-VRFY
>> 250-ETRN
>> 250-AUTH PLAIN
>> 250-AUTH=PLAIN
>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>> 250-8BITMIME
>> 250 DSN
>
> I don't believe Outlook handles PLAIN, I believe it needs to be LOGIN
> (or NTLM if that's checked in the client), so try modifying your
> dovecot.conf file and add that to the mechanisms parameter.
>

That's a good one. An telnet to my mta:

Leto:/Volumes renevanhoek$ telnet mail.active8.nl 25
Trying 195.86.22.59...
Connected to mail.active8.nl.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sem.active8.nl ESMTP Postfix
EHLO test
250-sem.active8.nl
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 26214400
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN

That is AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

You are right I think. Good chance that that is the cause why outlook
doesn't authenticate.

Greetings,

rene at active8 nl