Re: [Patch] IMAP Code Simplifications

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Anatole,

Welcome to the list!

On 04/11/2017 09:56:04 PM Tue, Anatole Denis wrote:
> On mar., avril 11, 2017 at 11:59 , Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net> wrote:
> > > Anyone out there using an imap server w/ gssapi authentication, who could verify the changes?
> >
> > Yes, that would be great--I can't exercise that code either!
> >
> > Peter
>
> Hi,
>
> I happen to have an email server with GSSAPI auth (which I had never tried with balsa before). I'm happy to 
> report that with balsa recompiled with gss from current master I am succesfully able to authenticate with GSS 
> over IMAP.

Good news--thanks for testing!

> Maybe this isn't relevant here, but while it did start automatically authenticating with method=GSSAPI over 
> IMAP without any configuration as soon as I had a ticket for the kerberos domain, I can't figure out how to 
> configure it to use GSS for SMTP.

GSSAPI authentication has not been implemented for SMTP connections. But Albrecht has brought SMTP support 
into Balsa's code tree, so now it may be possible to add GSS to the list of supported auths (PLAIN, LOGIN, 
CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1).

> By the way, since this is my first post to the list: thanks for Balsa !

You're welcome!

Peter