Have there been any reported success stories with Microsoft Outlook Express and SMTP AUTH..
I cannot seem to get my mail server to authenticate the incoming receipt for an outgoing message. I have checked to make sure that the AUTH LOGIN and AUTH PLAIN are available. Any suggestions would be greatly beneficial. Paul. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:18 AM Subject: Re: Can't get SMTP Authentication to work on Eudora 5.0.2 > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 06:03:09AM +0000, researcher9831 researcher9831 wrote: > > Also, Life with Qmail says "Please note that the patch isn't declared stable > > or so, it is still experimental. It works fine on my production systems > > since march or so, but I know there are some gotchas and unclear error > > messages left." > > > > How bad is this ? In what situtation will do problems occur? > > I'm not aware of any problems, and my userbase is big enough so that is a > good indicator for a working patch, esp. given that runs since nearly a year. > However, I did not test that much. I am aware of users using Eudora. I'm not > sure wether they actually use SMTP AUTH, though. > There is one gotcha. We do not support CRAM-MD5 authentification. This would > require cleartext passwords on the server, a very bad idea IMHO. > > The patch's codebase is not really in a state I like, though it isn;t > updated due to lack of time. > > Greetz > > Henning > > -- > * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * > * BS Web Services, Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * > Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. > (Dennis Ritchie) > >
