Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S670 Information Guide
Lotus Notes Prompts for Authentication When
Displaying HTML E−mails
Displaying HTML E−mails
Document ID: 117942
Contributed by Denis Jacobi and Siddharth Rajpathak, Cisco TAC
Engineers.
Engineers.
Jul 15, 2014
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Why does Lotus Notes prompt for authentication when displaying HTML e−mails?
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Lotus Notes does NOT support NTLM authentication, it only supports Basic authentication.
If you configured your Identities to only use NTLMSSP, then authentication with Lotus Notes will not work.
The user gets continuously prompted for authentication, even after entering the correct credentials.
The user gets continuously prompted for authentication, even after entering the correct credentials.
In order to address this problem, you can configure the Identities to use "NTLMSSP or Basic" authentication
scheme instead of NTLMSSP only.
scheme instead of NTLMSSP only.
For more information please see the section "CASES WITH AUTHENTICATED PROXIES" of IBM's
knowledge base article "Troubleshooting Internet HTML e−mails with images appearing as red Xs".
knowledge base article "Troubleshooting Internet HTML e−mails with images appearing as red Xs".
Updated: Jul 15, 2014
Document ID: 117942