Outlook secure authentication

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Outlook secure authentication

Postby sbullet0810 » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:05 pm

Does the community version support secure exchange of passwords in using Outlook as an IMAP client? I saw some posts that seem to indicate it does, but SPA doesn't work and I can see the userid and password with tcpdump.

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Postby ScalixSupport » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:17 pm

SPA isn't supported but the IMAP server will handle SASL authentication provided that the client is capable of it. This is usually PLAIN, LOGIN or MD5.

Cheers

Dave

sbullet0810

Postby sbullet0810 » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:05 am

Ok, I guess Outlook must only support plain. Do you guys know?
I tried Thunderbird and it negotiates cram-md5 and the userid and password are encrypted. I also see the scalix IMAP server state the capabilities at the start of the protocol conversation. I just wasn't sure if Outlook didn't support secure credentials without SPA or if I wasn't configuring the client properly.

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Postby kali » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:39 pm

I think you can do exactly what you are trying to do.

If you make a link to libntlm.so (which resides in /usr/lib/sasl2) in /opt/scalix/lib/security, then "NTLM" will be offered with is MS SPA, and using that check box will work.

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