Kerberos support in Thunderbird

[Ken Hornstein]

>The Thunderbird beta (1.5b1) that was released yesterday contains new
>support for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication against POP3, IMAP and SMTP
>servers.
>
>It would be really good to get some test coverage against different
>servers, and in different environments. I originally wrote and tested
>the code against the U-W IMAP server - it's also been tested against
>various servers using Cyrus SASL for their GSSAPI support.

Works like a champ out of the box against our POP server (a version of
qpopper that uses Cyrus SASL) and our SMTP server (sendmail).  It
doesn't do security layers, unfortunately, but you already knew that :-/
Nevertheless, I'm buying a round next time we're in a pub together!

--Ken