[Dovecot] [PATCH] Support GSS-SPNEGO natively

[Angel Marin]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:27:40AM +0200, Angel Marin wrote:
>> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> I cooked this up while trying to figure out why thunderbird on Windows
>>> w/ SSPI was not working, but it turned out thunderbird does not use
>>> it, so I haven't been able to test it yet. I'm presenting it for
>>> discussion only, unless someone else can try it :)
>> thunderbird does all combinations of GSS auth w/ & w/o SSPI I've ever 
>> tried; it's just a pain to find the correct combination of 
>> network.negotiate-auth.* and network.auth.use-sspi settings for any 
>> given case :) (plus enabling secure auth for the TB account at test)
> 
> Really? I was looking through the source to TB and I can't find where
> it would use AUTH=GSS-SPNEGO..

ok now rereading it again, I didn't make it clear what part of your
message I was referring to :)

I was just addressing the 'why thunderbird on Windows w/ SSPI was not
working' part pointing out that thunderbird can do SSPI and that it
should work tweaking the appropriate options.

-- 
Angel Marin
http://anmar.eu.org/