Kerberos IMAP clients

Adam Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Sun Jul 13 22:40:01 EDT 2003


> >>One question. While it is nice to have Kerberos 4/5 authentication, which
> >>IMAP clients support it? Which one would you suggest?
> >I know that pine & Ximian Evolution do via GSSAPI
> There's also a KERBEROS_IV patch for pine, and Mulberry can do atleast
> KERBEROS_IV.

I did a Kerberos V presentation last Tuesday and a Eudora groupee
claimed that is supported Kerberos V.

ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/Kerberos2003.pdf

> >> Etienne Goyer told me they were using "PLAIN -> saslauthd -> Kerberos 5".
> >That is more of a mail server configuration than anything to do with client
> >support.
> Yup.  This configuration allows the use of Kerberos passwords with PLAIN,
> for example.  Of course, this sort of defeats the point of Kerberos,
> but... ;)






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