310968 - Beta 1.5 Beta 1 Kerberos auth doesn't work with cyrus IMAPD

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

I always use GSSAPI to connect to my IMAP server, using the Mulberry email
client.  I saw that the 1.5 Beta of thunderbird was supposed to support this
feature as well.  However, when attempting to connect to my server with "secure
authentication" checked, it tells me my server does not support this option. 
Which is obviously incorrect, as I use it multiple times every day.

--Quanah

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable "secure authentication"
2. Select "Get Messages for Account"


Actual Results:  
I receive the following error: You cannot log in to quanah.pobox.stanford.edu
because you have enabled secure authentication and this server does not support it.

Expected Results:  
Connected via GSSAPI to check my email.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

are you using MIT Kerberos or MS's Kerberos? 

Comment 2

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

I'm using MIT Kerberos.

Comment 3

[ataraxia937]

I am seeing this behavior as well. I also use MIT Kerberos with a Cyrus server.
(I work for Carnegie Mellon and we make Cyrus, so if it doesn't work here, well...)

An additional data point is that it does work on Linux and OS X. The bug seems
to be Windows-specific.

(FWIW, we are considering using Thunderbird as our official supported client due
to the death of Mulberry, but only if this bug is fixed.)

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

It works fine with the cyrus server I have access to. Have you set
network.auth.use-sspi to false, using tools | options | advanced, config editor?
This is required on windows if you don't want to use MS's SSPI.

Comment 5

[ataraxia937]

No, I was unaware of that option. Setting it does make it work. I will pass that
on into CMU-land. Thanks!

Comment 6

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

This change worked for me.  Yeah!

Now if only Thunderbird supported SIEVE rules... Then I could replace mulberry. :P

--Quanah

Comment 7

[Marc Bejarano]

thunderbird can be made to support sieve rules via the sieve extension available from http://sieve.mozdev.org .

see bug 264705.

i'm going to change this from FIXED to WFM as there was no code fix necessary for this "bug".