From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3130 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: SMTP AUTH with GSSAPI Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:42:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ekwxjotx.fsf@everett.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669330 17728 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:02:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:44 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ssh.pdc.kth.se Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1067370171 28521 193.10.159.36 (28 Oct 2003 19:42:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:42:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PdVE/BeAMW90SCAKhF3p7deSmuE= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3271 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3271 Tue Jan 17 17:31:44 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3130 Archived-At: David Z Maze 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. :-)