On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 16:57 +0000, Stephen Feyrer wrote: > I'm trying to test EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in Dovecot. To do this I first > configured Thunderbird and Opera to use my server, neither of them were > successful. As a result I contacted both organisations to enquire if they > supported EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in their products. Thunderbird > responded and said yes. However, on closer inspection my contact at > Thunderbird identified that support for EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION was poor > at best and then only in SMTP. From that point on, my contact has been > trying to implement support in Thunderbird.
I already got a mail about it from David Bienvenu and answered it. > 01 AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL > + > 01 list "" * The problem is that Dovecot (well, EXTERNAL mechanism really) expects the client to send authorization string after the AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL command. Typically you would just give "=" line there.
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