[Dovecot] outlook2003 fails sasl authentication

Jens Meyer jm2 at jensmeyer.de
Wed Mar 12 17:39:52 EET 2008


Hi!

I have a similar configuration - and run into the same problem before 
two weeks.

As I remember I expanded the following line in dovecot.conf:
-->
mechanisms = plain login
<--

It works for me and hopefully it is the correct solution (even if I am 
no dovecot-expert).

Kind regards,

      Jens

Johan Hendriks schrieb:
> Hello all i have postfix running with dovecot-sasl and mysql as a backend.
> It all runs good.
> 
> I run into trouble as where outlook 2003 fails to authenticate when 
> sending e-mail.
> I have thunderbird outlook2007 and 2003 clients.
> The tunderbird and 2007 clients are working OK, the outlook2003 client 
> get the relay access denied message.
> In the postfix log i see it is not initiating sasl
> 
> they all use pop
> 
> i use dovecot 1.0.13
> this is my posfix part of sasl
> 
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = $mynetworks
> broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
>                permit_sasl_authenticated,
>                reject_unauth_destination
>                permit
> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
> smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
> 
> and this is my dovecot sasl part
> # dovecot SASL
> socket listen {
>        client {
>          # Assuming the default Postfix $queue_directory setting
>          path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>          mode = 0660
>          # Assuming the default Postfix user and group
>          user = postfix
>          group = postfix
>        }
>      }
> 
> Am i doing something wrong?
> I guess if it is not configured right outlook 2007 and thunderbird will 
> fail also!
> 
> regards,
> Johan Hendriks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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