Background:

I'm running a RH9 box with Dovecot 0.99.11. Dovecot was installed using yum and the rpm found on http://dag.wieers.com/packages/dovecot/. With two exceptions I've been enormously happy with Dovecot. I'm even happier having recently successfully installed pop-before-smtp sop one exception down. However the other problem I've experienced is becoming critical.

I've an ongoing issue with MS Entourage clients, a MS for Mac product, unable to authenticate to Dovecot. This had been attributed to MacOS 9/MS Entourage 2001 but with new systems in place I'm having the same issue with MacOS X/MS Entourage 2004 being unable to authenticate to Dovecot.

MS acknowledges the issue in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/871016 with the errata:

5 Known issues 5.1 NTLM v1 authentication support Entourage no longer supports NTLM v1 authentication. Entourage does support NTLM v2.

Where I am now:

There has been previous references to an Entourage authentication issue on the mailing list but it was resolved by "after I tried everything else with no success, upgrading from Dovecot 0.99.10.2 to 0.99.10.4 solved the problem." Well, I'm at 0.99.11 so apparently this is back, or something else is going on.

From several hours going over the mailing list it appears that Dovecot 1.0-test is the solution with it's extended NTLM support. However I'm not a very sophisticated sysadmin and so it was with trepidation I downloaded dovecot-1.0-test52 and started following the instructions. After a quick "yum install openssl-development" I thought I was good to go but alas "./configure --with-ssl=openssl" resulted in:

./configure: line 26374: pkg-config: command not found checking for SSL_read in -lssl... yes checking openssl/ssl.h usability... no checking openssl/ssl.h presence... no checking for openssl/ssl.h... no checking openssl/err.h usability... yes checking openssl/err.h presence... yes checking for openssl/err.h... Yes

and make failed with a cascade of errors after:

In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, from ssl-proxy-openssl.c:14: /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory

Why I'm posting:

So, hoping I've given enough detail to be useful, here are my questions:

• Am I correct that MS Entourage 2004 can't authenticate with Dovecot .99.11? Are there folks it does work for (how)?
• Am I correct that Dovecot-1.0-test has support for NTLMv2 and would thus authenticate MS Entourage 2004?
• Does anyone have a prebuilt (yum suitable) rpm of a recent Dovecot 1.0-test for RH9? Dag appears to only carry released versions, is there a source for -test ones?
• Is there something trivial I'm overlooking in trying to build dovecot-1.0-test52? I'm assuming I'm missing /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h, is this correct?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I was pushing my skillset getting pop-before-smtp working. While I'm good at following directions and learning from them I'm just that; learning.

-- Michael michael@michaelmaggard.com