Re: SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail

2012-01-31 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/31/2012 1:44 AM, James Day wrote: The only question that remains for me is, what is the difference between PLAIN and LOGIN mechanisms? I understand from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms that they are both plain text. Unfortunately google searches for login

RE: SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail

2012-01-31 Thread James Day
The only question that remains for me is, what is the difference between PLAIN and LOGIN mechanisms? I understand from http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms that they are both plain text. Unfortunately google searches for login authentication aren't particularly helpful.

SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail

2012-01-30 Thread James Day
I'll keep this short for now in case it's a known problem but if more logs are required let me know. I've configured postfix to allow SASL authenticated users (dovecot sasl) to relay. I've tested this and confirmed it works from within Outlook 2007 and 2010. However trying the same account

Re: SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail

2012-01-30 Thread Jim Seymour
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:30:33 + James Day james@ontraq.com wrote: [snip] ... trying the same account details from Windows Live Mail throws up a: 554 Relay Access denied error message. [snip] IIRC, Relay access denied is a symptom of a non-SSL attempted connection/login when

Re: SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail

2012-01-30 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/30/2012 9:32 PM, Jim Seymour wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:30:33 + James Day james@ontraq.com wrote: [snip] ... trying the same account details from Windows Live Mail throws up a: 554 Relay Access denied error message. [snip] IIRC, Relay access denied is a symptom of a

RE: SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail

2012-01-30 Thread James Day
[mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Noel Jones Sent: 31 January 2012 04:22 To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail On 1/30/2012 9:32 PM, Jim Seymour wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:30:33 + James Day james@ontraq.com wrote: [snip