Suresh wrote:
>On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:48 PM [GMT+0530=IST],
>Clive McDowell <c.mcdowell@???> wrote:
>
>> I have an SMTP server running which forces users outside our domain
>> to authenticate. It works fine for Outlook, OE and Netscape but for
>> some reason Entourage on macs complains that it does not recognise
>> any of the authentication methods offered by the SMTP server. I have
>> configured PLAIN and LOGIN as per the manual with some mangling for
>> LDAP authentication. Do I need a third definition for Entourage? If
>> so, how is it implemented?
>
>Try AUTH CRAM-MD5
>
If you have the cleartext passwords of your users.
And if you feel that all components in question dealing with those
passwords are very, very secure.
Realistically speaking the chance of a (not so PLAIN) password being
sniffed when doing AuthSMTP is low. And it's one password as opposed
to all of them.
YMMV, etc.
Dewa,
Christian Balzer
--
Christian Balzer Network Engineer Engineering
chibi@??? Global OnLine Japan/Exodus Communications K.K.
http://www.gol.com/
