Outlook express smtp auth against linux

[Cole Tuininga]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 15:43, brian wrote:
> In my experience, you have to allow login or plain AUTH with lookout.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised they would use login AUTH - the least
documented method I found.  There's not a standard or an RFC so far as I
can tell.  8)

Although, I do already support plain AUTH - it's all I'm supporting at
the moment.

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

Yeah, thankfully I'm using exim which makes any of them equally
easy/difficult to set up.  I'd like to avoid the MD5 versions simply
because they require the password to be stored in a retrievable manner
on the server.

> 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)

Well, the good news is that it appears to be doing the tls correctly so
far as I can tell.  I haven't put a sniffer on the line, but I do see OE
issue the STARTTLS command to exim, and exim accepts the encryption.

> This URL might be handy (not sure if it's up-to-date):
> 
> http://www.dantor.com/support/mail/smtpauth/

Thanks - I'll check it out.

> 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...

I wouldn't say it helped so much as depressed me... *grin*  Thanks for
the response though.

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Cole Tuininga
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