A few years ago I inquired about Kerberos authentication for Gnus IMAP and at the time it was concluded that it had originally worked, but did not work anymore.

Since then I was waiting for the dynamic module support to land in Emacs so that I could implement native GSSAPI support and then modify Gnus to take advantage of it. I now decided to start looking at this.

While implementing this i rediscovered the existence of ‘gssapi.el’ in the Gnus directory and I noted that it has a copyright year of 2017. That suggests to me that this file is actually maintained. However, I still do not see any indication in the Gnus source code that it would be possible to actually use this with Gnus.

Before I sink any more time into implementing native GSSAPI support in Emacs, could anyone explain to me what the current state of this is, and if it might actually be possible to get this to work without me having to write a lot of new code?

Regards,

Elias