Re: [Evolution] Kerberos in Evolution 1.2

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

I think we dropped support for KPOP, but do still have support for the
KERBEROS_V4 SASL mechanism over POP if you can use that...?

Jeff

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:48, David Kettler wrote:
> Howdy,
>
>       I did one of my regular Debian (unstable) updates today, and 
> among other things it upgraded Evolution from 1.08 to 1.2.
> Unfortunately, the one feature I actually care about the most is broken: namely 
> Kerberos support.  Evolution has (or at least had) excellent kerberos 
> support built right in so I never had to resort to using an external 
> program like fetchmial or something similar.  I would fetch my tickets with a standard Kerberos 
> implementation and then evolution would handle the rest.
>       However now it doesn't work.  The option of using Kerberos 
> authentication is still there, and I get my ticket with kinit as always, 
> but Evolution just doesn't care.  It still asks me for a plain text password when I check my mail!  Note 
> that this isn't the kind of behavior I would experience before if I didn't have a ticket or the ticket 
> expired, etc.  Previously if I didn't have a ticket it was smart enough to tell me as much.  But now, 
> despite the fact that Kerberos authentication is still selected, the 
> program is behaving as if it was expecting a regular old plain text 
> password; it's ignoring the Kerberos stuff entirely.  Furthermore, since I use the kerberos tickets for 
> more than just checking email I know that at least the Kerberos side of things is still working.  It's just 
> evolution that seems to be the problem.  Since my university requires Kerberos for checking our email 
> accounts (and that's primarly what I've been using Evolution for), the program has effectively become 
> useless to me.
>       So what can I do to fix this?  Thanks.
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com