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Re: smtp_sasl_password_maps

From: Anne Wilson (cannewilsongooglemail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2008 - 03:53:36 CDT

On Thursday 20 March 2008 20:59:17 Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> * Anne Wilson <cannewilsongooglemail.com>:
> > > If you serve Outlook and/or Outlook Express you need to offer LOGIN
> > > unless you offer NTLM. NTLM however requires that the server has access
> > > to the passwords in plaintext - not everybodies pair of shoes.
> >
> > Academically, that's interesting :-) - but only academically. I've never
> > used Outlook in any of its incarnations, and I have my family firmly
> > trained to keep away from it, so it's not a problem to me.
> >
> > > LOGIN authentication differs from PLAIN authentication. Other than in
> > > PLAIN authentication LOGIN sends authentication data in a multistep
> > > dialogue and not at once. Here's a typical LOGIN session:
> > >
> > > (S: is server, C: is client)
> > >
> > > S: AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
> > > S: AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
> > > ...
> > > C: AUTH LOGIN
> > > S: Username? (in base64 encoding)
> > > C: Username (in base64 encoding)
> > > S: Password? (in base64 encoding)
> > > C: Password (in base64 encoding)
> > > S: Authentication (successful|failed)
> >
> > I did do this in a telnet session, and I did get a successful
> > authentication. It seems that that part of the equation is now correct.
> > I wish I could pinpoint where it's going wrong, though, as I can not get
> > the imap resources working.
>
> Take the output of "dovecot -n" to the Dovecot mailing list?
>
I'm going to try to get some more info about how kmail's imap resources works.
I just don't feel that I understand it enough, and if I knew more I would be
better able to troubleshoot it. After that, I'll do as you suggest. Thanks

Anne

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