dovecot - Dec 2008 - Dovecot authentication not supported in Entourage

Hi Guys,

I recently configured an mail server running postfix + dovecot + mysql +
postfixadmin, everything is running ok except for Mac Entourage clients
which is a PITA IMO, I always get a authentication not supported error while
thunderbird and outlook on windows don't. Any ideas or workaround?
my dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5.

here's the output of dovecot.conf and dovecot-sql.conf respectively:

# dovecot -n

# 1.0.7: /etc/dovecot.conf
base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
ssl_cert_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/mail-cert.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/postfix/ssl/mail-key.pem
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
first_valid_uid: 150
last_valid_uid: 150
mail_access_groups: mail
mail_location: maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%u
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login digest-md5
  user: nobody
  passdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  userdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
      mode: 432
      user: postfix
      group: mail
    master:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode: 432
      user: virtualmail
      group: mail

# cat /etc/dovecot-sql.conf


[root at mail ~]# cat /etc/dovecot-sql.conf

driver = mysql
connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix user=dovecot password=dovecot69
default_pass_scheme = MD5
user_query = SELECT '/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as home,
'maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as mail, 150 AS uid, 12 AS gid,
concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username
'%u' AND active = '1'
# Get the password
password_query = SELECT username as user, password,
'/home/virtualmail/%d/%n' as userdb_home,
'maildir:/home/virtualmail/%d/%n'
as userdb_mail, 150 as userdb_uid, 12 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE
username = '%u' AND active = '1'

TIA.

Jan

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 13:06 +0800, jan gestre wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I recently configured an mail server running postfix + dovecot + mysql +
> postfixadmin, everything is running ok except for Mac Entourage clients
> which is a PITA IMO, I always get a authentication not supported error
while
> thunderbird and outlook on windows don't. Any ideas or workaround?
> my dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5.
Sounds like Entourage is configured to use non-plaintext authentication,
such as NTLM.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL:
<http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20081212/a4d2e54c/attachment-0002.bin>

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 13:06 +0800, jan gestre wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I recently configured an mail server running postfix + dovecot + mysql
+
> > postfixadmin, everything is running ok except for Mac Entourage
clients
> > which is a PITA IMO, I always get a authentication not supported error
> while
> > thunderbird and outlook on windows don't. Any ideas or workaround?
> > my dovecot version is dovecot-1.0.7-2.el5.
>
> Sounds like Entourage is configured to use non-plaintext authentication,
> such as NTLM.
>
I'm not very familiar with Entourage, how do I effect PLAIN TEXT
authentication in Entourage?

TIA