Bug 1679 - SMTP does not offer GSSAPI authentication (arbitrary?)
Summary: SMTP does not offer GSSAPI authentication (arbitrary?)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2)
Classification: Unclassified
Component: SMTP (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.0
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 enhancement
Assignee: users
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Reported: 2008-07-21 00:09 UTC by Bryan Jacobs
Modified: 2010-07-28 16:27 UTC (History)
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Description Bryan Jacobs 2008-07-21 00:09:46 UTC 
I have a mail server which supports GSSAPI for both IMAP and SMTP.  claws-mail does EXACTLY the right thing when IMAP is set to "automatic" auth - it will do GSSAPI if I have kerberos tickets and fall back to LOGIN if I do not.

However, there's no force-GSSAPI option in the "sending" preferences, and I have verified that GSSAPI is not used when I send a message while it's set to automatic.

kmail sends messages using GSSAPI through this server just fine.  This looks like somebody just didn't know GSSAPI was an option for SMTP servers :-).

The server is postfix using dovecot SASL.
Comment 1 Austin Murphy 2009-02-03 17:33:13 UTC 
It looks like Claws has internal SMTP handling, but uses libetpan for IMAP. 

Looking through src/common/smtp.c shows that SMTP AUTH using GSSAPI is not implemented by Claws.
Comment 2 Colin Leroy 2009-02-03 17:53:22 UTC 
Yes, this is the reason.
Comment 3 Alexander Gordeev 2010-07-28 16:27:45 UTC 
Maybe Claws Mail should use libetpan's SMTP implementation? Are there any objections/difficulties?
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