[Dovecot] Outlook 2007 w/SPA, Active Directory (was NTLM failures with an interesting twist)

[Gavin Hamill]

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 21:55 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:50:02AM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully configured the above to enable Single Sign-On? I
> > would love to move away from Exchange but SSO is a corporate
> > requirement.
> 
> I looked at this in some detail and concluded that the NTLM support on
> Outlook 2007 was only for encryption, it was not using SPA. I couldn't
> find a hidden registry setting or whatnot to switch it.

Heh, have just found you here:
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284538

You mention that you managed to get Thunderbird working with SSO; I've
not achieved that - I'm still required to provide the password before
the NTLM login is successful.. Is there any particular magic needed with
Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 ?

> If you have a corporate support arrangement with MS, maybe ask them?
> Many people would love an answer. Even a trace of outlook using SPA
> with Exchange over IMAP would be interesting to see.

Alas our MS support arrangement extends to the same 'Google + web
forums' that most other places use.

gdh