dovecot - Jan 2009 - Active Directory authentication

Hello all

I would like to ask if there is adequate mechanism to authenticate users
through POP3 against Active Directory by Outlook Express so that users will
authenticate seamlessly using logon credentials.

I have implemented  LDAP authentication but users must supply their
credentials to Outlook Express although they have logged on to Windows (AD).

the ntlm auth in Dovecot 1.1 (windind) satisies this requirement (no
credentials in Outlook)?

thanks
Dimitrios

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:26:37AM +0200, Dimitrios Karapiperis wrote:
> I would like to ask if there is adequate mechanism to authenticate users
> through POP3 against Active Directory by Outlook Express so that users will
> authenticate seamlessly using logon credentials.
> 
> I have implemented  LDAP authentication but users must supply their
> credentials to Outlook Express although they have logged on to Windows
(AD).
> 
> the ntlm auth in Dovecot 1.1 (windind) satisies this requirement (no
> credentials in Outlook)?
I don't know about Outlook Express, but I was unable to get Outlook
2007 to use login credentials, and my dovecot is configured to support
NTLM, SPNEGO and GSSAPI :(

Thunderbird on Windows will use the login credentials if dovecot
supports GSSAPI and has the proper kerberos setup. Check use secure
authentication or somesuch.

Jason