Kerberos support in Thunderbird
Sam Hartman
hartmans at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 14 19:11:08 EDT 2005
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Alexander <jalex at cis.upenn.edu> writes:
Jim> I meant to also add that I think it is generally considered
Jim> bad form to silently fall back to a weaker security mechanism
Jim> when a stronger on fails. I want to be able to configure my
Jim> mail client to use GSSAPI, and if it fails, I want to be told
Jim> that it failed, not fall back and perhaps successfully
Jim> authenticate using CRAM-MD5, leaving me without a clue that
Jim> my chosen auth method is not working.
I agree having this option is nice. However I also think it is
important to have a usable default behavior.
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