Re: Cannot connect from Outlook

[Keith Matthews <postfix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:57:01 +0200
Magnus Bäck <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Friday, October 01, 2004 at 20:50 CEST,
>      Justin Jaynes <justinjaynes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I am fully aware that Postfix is not an IMAP or POP3 server.  I have
> > both an IMAP and a POP3 server running.
> > 
> > As I stated, Outlook connected successfully to the POP3 and IMAP
> > servers.  However, the authentication failed.
> > 
> > As I understand from the Postfix book I have been reading, the
> > authentication is handeled through Postfix.  What would be reasons
> > for the authorization to fail?
> 
> Postfix has nothing to do with IMAP/POP server authentication.
> 
> 

Magnus,  I think he's talking about SASL (or just possibly TLS, it's not
clear).

I suspect he's not included the SASL stuff.


Defining which Postfix book and what part of it would be a good starting
point, then we'd have a better idea of what his problem area is.

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