Kerberos support in Thunderbird

[Markus Moeller]

I got it now also working on SLES9 with SMTP and IMAP against a w2k3 kdc, 
although a sendmail buffer needed to be increased to accept the very long 
AUTH line because of the PAC field.

Thanks
Markus

"Ken Hornstein" <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote in message 
news:200509121957.j8CJux8q003910 at ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil...
> >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
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