[Dovecot] outlook2003 fails sasl authentication

[Johan Hendriks]

Thank you so much that was it!
I just migrated from one server to another and that line did not made it 
in the new dovecot.conf file.

Well i need to use diff  more.
Thanks again


Jens Meyer schreef:
> 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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