From: Rene van Hoek (reneactive8.nl)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2007 - 08:03:00 CST

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Tom Kovar wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-postfix-userspostfix.org
> [mailto:owner-postfix-userspostfix.org] On Behalf Of Michael Wang
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 2:51 PM
> To: Postfix users
> Subject: Re: SASL vs. M$ Outlook and Outlook Express
>
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> 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.
>

> I have tried it with enabling PLAIN and LOGIN, nothing changed. If I
> remove PLAIN and have only LOGIN, the Outlook client exits immediately,
> stating that the server does not offer a mechanism supported by Outlook
> - so this will not be the problem, either.
>
> Btw., with IMAP, Outlook sends "AUTH PLAIN" without any problem...

We advice our customers to configure outlook in the following way (texts
are in Dutch, but the screenshots should be clear):

http://support.active8.nl/index.srf?pkn=file_id&pkv=27&lang_id=360

I have a Windows machine near me. If you can send me an test-account, I
would be happy to test if I can authenticate with your mta. I assume you
don't have an Windows machine currently available?

By the way, please don't top-post. It makes this thread harder to follow.

Greetings,

rene at active8 nl

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