Outlook express smtp auth against linux

[brian]

In my experience, you have to allow login or plain AUTH with lookout.

Most default setups in Sendmail tend to prefer CRAM and/or DIGEST MD5.

The SSL thing is completely different.  The problem comes down to
LookOut sucks and doesn't support any modern secure login mechanisms
(lets see a show of hands for all those surprised)

This URL might be handy (not sure if it's up-to-date):

http://www.dantor.com/support/mail/smtpauth/

I went through the same thing when setting up SMTP auth last month. 
Worked great for me (Evolution) and all the LookOut users couldn't send
mail, even with the proper account settings plugged in.

HTH...

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 15:20, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> Hi folks - I'm running into a problem that I was hoping somebody might
> have some ideas on.
> 
> I'm running a debian server box with exim on it.  I've set up exim to
> require tls smtp authentication if they want to relay.  At this point,
> it works just hunky dory with evolution, but outlook (and outlook
> express) doesn't seem to know how to handle it.
> 
> If I put exim into full debug mode, I see the authentication come
> through with evolution, but with outlook/express it doesn't even seem to
> make an attempt?
> 
> In outlook express, if I pull up the account profile, I go into the
> "Servers" tab.  Towards the bottom is a checkbox marked "My server
> requires authentication" which I've turned on.  In the associated
> "Settings" dialog, I use hard coded values rather than the "Use same
> settings as my incoming mail server" option.  Account name is set.  In
> the "Advanced" tag, I've got "This server requires a secure connection
> (SSL)" turned on for outgoing mail.  
> 
> Can anybody see something I'm missing here?
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