Outlook wont work with secure Password
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Fri Jan 10 16:58:46 EST 2003
David Brandt wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > i have big problems getting outlook working with "Secure password"
> (dunno
> > > how its called in english) turned on.
> > > The only Problem is that outlook sends "AUTH \r\n" instead of "AUTH\r\n"
> > > (note the space).
> > > The Cyrus POP3 then says Syntax error.
> > > Any help?
> >
> > The AUTH command expects the SASL mechanism to follow the AUTH command,
> > ie "AUTH NTLM\r\n"
> >
> > Check RFC 1734. In any case if you're trying to use the checkbox in
> > Outlook that I think you are, you'll have to have the user's passord in
> > /etc/sasldb.
>
> Hey, its outlook ;)
>
> If there wouldn be a space at the end the popd would echo all mechs it
> knows.
> Outlook tries to do this, i dont know why.
>
> AUTH
> +OK List of supported mechanisms follows
> NTLM
> DIGEST-MD5
> CRAM-MD5
> .
Even though Outlook is using the OLD way of SASL mechanism discovery AND
doing it incorrectly, here is a patch:
http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/cyrus/imap/pop3d.c.diff?r1=1.130&r2=1.131
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