Re: [exim] PLAIN authentication and Outlook Express

James Davis wrote:
> I'm using the following authenticator, it works perfectly fine using
> Thunderbird as a MUA but not from Outlook Express. I'd seen hints the
> documentation that perhaps the server_prompts string was critical but
> I've changed it to the recommended prompt and still no luck.

Thunderbird can easily authenticate themself via CRAM-MD5/DIGEST-MD5
methods (a little better than simple PLAIN).

OE5/OE6 can understand LOGIN (but only in TLS session) and SPA/NTLM.

Just replace:
public_name = PLAIN
with:
public_name = LOGIN

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