[KLUG Members] SASL

[Adam Williams]

>>>>No. Mutt, e.g., supports several authentication schemes (PLAIN,
>>>>DIGEST-MD5, GSSAPI). Your server uses SASL to negotiate one of those
>>>>schemes and uses SASL to run a PLAIN.plugin or CRAM-MD5.plugin to
>>>>authenticate the user.
>>>All looks like a good explanantion to me, thanks!
>>Well, not quite. I should have recognized the obvious thought that the
>>client needs to properly negotiate the SASL dialog. mutt and cyrdeliver
>>both link to SASL.
>The commercial MUA's that I examined had a fair amount of stuff (it's
>utility to be determined) in the form of documentation and/or downloads.
>Search engines on those sites found nohing under SASL, but did find
>stuff under "SMTP Authentication", which is how this thread got started.
>However, your point is well taken. Perhaps, by setting up a TAN*, I can
> easily configure the server and test it using a local MUA, and then 
>see if one of the commercial MUA's can also be made to work.

My pile-o-links has these about MDA config -
http://sendmail.net/usingsmtpauth.shtml
http://www.upenn.edu/computing/pennkey/sysadmin/d_install_unix/smtp.html
http://www.asp.ogi.edu/~pchytil/linux/sendmail/

The last one there states that Outlook supports the LOGIN PLAIN
mechanism only, so you'll want to SSL the SMTP and to just use
/etc/passwd or LDAP as your credential store (I assume).

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