OpenFire + Windows + POP3Auth

Hi guys. I’ve recently been tasked with testing OpenFire as an option for IM in our organization. While we do use Active Directory in some places, we are a school district so some of our schools are still on Novell. We would mainly like to use POP3 as our authentication method. I’ve tried for about 3 days and haven’t been able to successfully get this to work. It seems every thing I’ve searched for has pointed me at a linux plugin and working with NativeAuth instead of POP3Auth. Is there any magical thing I’m missing? I’ve tried so many things, I’m not really even sure which method seems logical anymore. Below is what the fields in my database look like for reference - I’m sure it’s probably something simple:

hybridAuthProvider.primaryProvider.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.auth.DefaultAuthProvider
hybridAuthProvider.primaryProvider.overrideList
admin
hybridAuthProvider.secondaryProvider.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.auth.POP3AuthProvider
passwordKey
6J9d5MNMTfKz66H
pop.port
110
pop3.authCache.enabled
FALSE
pop3.authRequiresDomain
TRUE
pop3.debug
TRUE
pop3.domain
mydomain.org
pop3.host
mail.mydomain.org
pop3.ssl
FALSE
provider.admin.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.admin.DefaultAdminProvider
provider.auth.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.auth.HybridAuthProvider
provider.group.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.group.DefaultGroupProvider
provider.lockout.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.lockout.DefaultLockOutProvider
provider.securityAudit.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.security.DefaultSecurityAuditProvider
provider.user.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.user.POP3UserProvider
provider.vcard.className
org.jivesoftware.openfire.vcard.DefaultVCardProvider
register.inband
FALSE
register.password
FALSE
update.lastCheck
1.29954E+12
xmpp.auth.anonymous
FALSE
xmpp.client.tls.policy
optional
xmpp.domain
mydomain.org
xmpp.server.certificate.accept-selfsigned
TRUE
xmpp.server.dialback.enabled
TRUE