279799 - Thunderbird needs SASL-GSSAPI auth for IMAP4, SMTP, and POP3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240778

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Wyllys Ingersoll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041123 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041123 Firefox/1.0

Thunderbird should support SASL-GSSAPI authentication for various mail servers
as well as for SMTP authentication for outgoing mail.

Now that GSSAPI support is available for Mozilla and Firefox (negotiateauth)
extension, Single Sign-On should be extended to the mail client as well.

Solaris 10 now has a standard libsasl (based on Cyrus SASL implementation) and
most Linux distros support Cyrus SASL.   Re-implementing SASL as part of the
mail client is the WRONG answer - use the implementation available on the platform.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

bug 240778 ?

Comment 2

[Wyllys Ingersoll]

Indeed, this is a dup of 240778.

I didn't see that when I did my search for this feature because I searched for
SASL and SASL isn't included in the description of 240778.  I am closing this as
 a dup and have updated the record for 240778.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240778 ***