Outlook wont work with secure Password

David Brandt david at wakka.de
Thu Jan 9 20:47:55 EST 2003


> >
> > 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
.

pop3test works with NTLM, AUTH etc.







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