279083 - SPA problem with Exchange server

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Jinwoo Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In my office, I'm accessing to our MS Exchange server using the IMAP protocol to
read/write emails.
The server requires SPA (Secure Password Authentication) enabled to logon.
In Thunderbird, I checked "Use secure authentication" in the server settings
dialog box, but it says that the server is not enabled to support this whenever
I try to logon to the server.

If I use Outlook Express and enable SPA, I can logon and use the email server.

Why does Thunderbird think that the email server is not enabled for SPA?


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

"Secure authentication" does not mean Microsoft Secure Password Authentication.
Secure Authentication means use the most secure authentication mechanism that
both mozilla and the imap server support - so, CRAM MD5, NTLM,  AUTH=MSN. My
understanding was that SPA was the same as MSN. Can you attach an imap protocol
log so I can see what your imap server is advertising, and what we're trying...

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap

Comment 2

[Marcelo de Araújo Almeida]

I am having the same problem with Thunderbird.

I have attached 3 logs: one entering the user/password, leaving the password 
blank, and other canceling the login prompt.

Comment 3

[Marcelo de Araújo Almeida]

Attachment: leaving the password blank

Comment 4

[Marcelo de Araújo Almeida]

Attachment: Canceling the prompt login

Comment 5

[Marcelo de Araújo Almeida]

Attachment: entering user/password

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Marcello, when you enter the user name and password, it looks like it works
fine, from the log, using auth ntlm. We don't support SPA - is this an RFE to
support SPA?

Comment 7

[Marcelo de Araújo Almeida]

I am looking for the same functionality that we have in "MS Outlook" 
and "Outlook Express" for authentication, because we are abandoning the use of 
the "Office" for the "OpenOffice" and the resource to record the password 
becomes bothering for the final users, a time that the politics of passwords 
compels a periodic exchange.

Comment 8

[Nikolay Shopik]

TB works fine with NTLM authentication, so if this request to RFE please change it  s severity. 
marking as INCOMPLETE for now.