Yep, that was in the end the problem - Outlook and Express do support PLAIN only for IMAP, not for SMTP. Including the LOGIN mechanism was the solution, sorry for not reporting before.
Best regards, --- Tom
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Jim Horner Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:03 AM To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot SASL vs. Micro$oft Outlook and Outlook Express
Before I start hacking the source myself, I just wanted to ask if somebody has a patch for this M$ shortcoming - as the damned M$ clients are very much spread, I would assume this should be the case...
I don't know about a patch per se but I am using rc15 and postfix 2.3.5 w/ dovecot sasl enabled in postfix. I had to add "login" mechanism to dovecot.conf in order for outlook variants to work.
auth default {
mechanisms = plain login
. . . }
Jim