Authentication Cleartext if SSL is enabled

Question

In OS X 10.9 Server, will cleartext authentication for the mail server work only if a client enables SSL? I only want to allow cleartext if SSL is a mandatory requirement for that connection.
I have Microsoft Outlook users who I want to be able to authenticate on my server, and MD5 isn't supported.

Answer 1

Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) by default is started in SSL mode as compare to generic Apache where one has to explicitly start it in SSL mode (and that too only with Apache 1.3 and 2.0, "apachectl startssl" is no longer applicable for Apache 2.2).
From OHS's point of view, you can look at two things to figure out if OHS is running with SSL enabled or not:
- Look for following <data> element under <ias-component id="HTTP_Server"> element in opmn.xml file:
<data id="start-mode" value="ssl-enabled"/>
- If Apache/OHS is running in SSL mode it is started with -DSSL switch in the command line so you can grep the httpd process to verify. For example you can do this:
$ps -ef | grep '\-DSSL'
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Shail