Re: GSSAPI and Gnus v5.13

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com> writes:

> There is, however, the problem of the non-existence of a GSSAPI API
> accessible from Emacs. There is, of course, gsasl which seems to have
> been used in the past, but it seems to me as though the design choice
> in nnimap is to be a full Elisp implementation of IMAP?

I think an elisp implementation of GSSAPI is unrealistic.

> As far as I can tell, there is no "standard" external application that
> can provide access to GSSAPI, so what is the suggested solution?

gssapi.el uses

(defcustom gssapi-program (list
                           (concat "gsasl %s %p "
                                   "--mechanism GSSAPI "
                                   "--authentication-id %l")
                           "imtest -m gssapi -u %l -p %p %s")

I would guess that reusing gassapi.el for the new nnimap.el would be the
easiest.  It's a matter of getting nnimap.el to recognising that GSSAPI
should be used, I think.

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