The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

I think I'd prefer snakes at this point

It took a bit more than just setting pop3_uidl_format to get Microsoft Lookout Outlook to fully work with the email system on the dedicated server. The customer could receive mail, but not send.

I'll spare you the details (namely because I want to spare myself the details) but to get Outlook to work with dovecot and postfix.

In /etc/postfix/main.cf:

smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

And in /etc/dovecot.conf:

ssl_disable = no

auth default {
  mechanisms = plain digest-md5 cram-md5 login
  passdb passwd-file {
    args = /etc/dovecot-passwd
  }
  
  # and because once isn't enough ... 

  userdb passwd-file {
    args = /etc/dovecot-passwd
  }

  socket listen {
    client {
      path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode = 0660
      user = postfix
      group = postfix
    }
  }
}

# and from yesterday ... 

pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv

Oh, and make sure saslauthd is running.

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