Kerberos IMAP clients

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > 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.

> > 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... ;)

-Rob

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