Outlook express smtp auth against linux

Cole Tuininga colet at code-energy.com
Mon Jan 26 21:15:45 EST 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 20:49, Paul Lussier wrote:

> Ayup, I'm going through the same thing right now with Entourage on the Mac.
> The problem is you need to set AUTH to Plain for Outlook/Entourage because
> they're completely stupid.  Since you're using TLS/SSL, Plain AUTH should
> be fine, since it will be encrypted.

The thing that's really irking me is that even with PLAIN auth available
over TLS, Outlook *still* isn't cooperating.  Remind me again why
anybody would use that braindead software?

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