Exchange
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SMTP/IMAP
Staff
Here are the current settings for SMTP and IMAP to access staff email
smtp-server=lupin.shu.ac.uk/user=shu\myusername
incoming-folders=my.email@shu.ac.uk {exchange.shu.ac.uk:143/imap/user=shu\myusername}inbox
Students
Here are the current settings for SMTP and POP3 to access student email
smtp-server=lupin.shu.ac.uk/user=myusername
incoming-folders=my.email@student.shu.ac.uk {hera.shu.ac.uk/pop3/user=myusername}inbox
Exchange protocol bugs
Microsoft Exchange server has several protocol bugs which you may need to work around.
Failure of plain authentication
You get the following error message: Retrying PLAIN authentication after AUTHENTICATE failed. This is because Microsoft Exchange protocol mistakenly advertises plain authentication even though it does not support it. You need to disable it as follows
disable-these-authenticators=PLAIN
Kerberos authentification failure
You get the following error messages: Unknown Kerberos failure: An invalid name was supplied and Kerberos mechanism status: Hostname cannot be canonicalized. This is because Microsoft Exchange protocol mistakenly advertises kerberos authentication even though it does not support it. You need to disable it as follows
disable-these-authenticators=GSSAPI
Workaround both problems
To work around both problems you need to disable plain authentication as well as Kerberos host authentication
disable-these-authenticators=PLAIN,GSSAPI
