On 2/11/24 09:58, giuliano--- via Postfix-users wrote:
Hi everyone!
Thank you a lot Wietse your help was essential for me learn more about
the dovecot and postfix and resolve the problem. I dont know why, but
the dovecot.conf was not loading the conf.d/ folder. So after change
these files I dont really have changes in the doveconf. I guess who
installed the server in past years, decide use only one file for all
configurations.
I'm new using the dovecot and postfix, so thank a lot for your time.
Now, the new version of outlook is working too!
Just a couple of notes for you:
What you probably ran across was the old admin simply ran doveconf -nP
and saved the output to a new, clean dovecot.conf file. This is not
unusual and I do it myself. It saves from having to hunt through
multiple files in the future to find where a particular setting should
reside and you get one simple, clean config file. At the end of the
day, the safe thing to do to always see the current config in any
dovecot install is to run dovecot -n (-P includes passwords so you
should use it if generating a new file but not if sharing the config
with others).
LOGIN is an old Microsoft-specific mech which, for some unknown reason
they still try to push people to use in the newest versions of outlook
even though it's overly complex and offers no advantages when compared
to PLAIN. I would tend to recommend using PLAIN instead and outlook
should have a configuration for that, or it should be able to just
recognize that PLAIN is offered and not LOGIN and be able to use PLAIN.
Of course if this is not the case (and it seems perhaps that it isn't in
your case) then LOGIN is okay to use. What I do find interesting is
that it can connect to dovecot via IMAP and use PLAIN but can't use
PLAIN for submission, or was dovecot somehow offering LOGIN via IMAP but
not via the auth service?
I did note the following from your oroginal message:
The "new outlook" seems to use a Microsoft Cloud service in the middle, so it's
no direct connection to my server.
If that is really the case I would ditch Outlook faster than you can
blink and install and use Thunderbird instead ... just saying.
Peter
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