Kerberos support in Thunderbird

[Simon Wilkinson]

Sam Hartman wrote:
>     Jim> (b) If my ticket cache is empty, Thunderbird correctly posts
>     Jim> a "your server does not support secure authentication"
>     Jim> dialog. My key manager never prompts me to obtain a ticket.
> 
> On Mac and Windows this is not at all what I'd expect.  I'd expect you
> to be prompted to get tickets.

I'm not sure why you're not being prompted under Windows (perhaps you're
configured to use SSPI, rather than Kerberos for Windows?). On the Mac,
the ticket prompter is specifically disabled. This is because of the
GSSAPI support code's original role in supporting Firefox's
NegotiateAuth implementation - fixing this in some way is bug #307788 @
bugzilla.mozilla.org

Simon.