Re: SMTP AUTH with GSSAPI

Re: SMTP AUTH with GSSAPI

[Simon Josefsson]

David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:

> Since SMTP authentication seems to be trendy this week, it looks like
> I have the option of using it as well here.  But, MIT is a heavily
> Kerberos-based world (this is good in general), and I'd very much
> prefer to do SMTP authentication using GSSAPI and my local Kerberos
> tickets if this is possible.  Is it, in Gnus?

I don't think so, unless you run a GSSAPI enabled MTA on your local
host, and send mail through it.

> (GSSAPI-auth IMAP is definitely possible, though that's not quite the
> default here, krb4 IMAP is instead.  But my impression is that that
> works in Gnus by Gnus finding a suitable `imtest' binary and having
> that do the work; I don't really know of something equivalent for SMTP
> connections.)

Right.  smtpmail.el should have a similar network-connection
sub-system as imap.el.  Patches welcome. :-)