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Bug 64032

Summary:	mailcheck appled does not support gssapi for authentication
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	schulz
Component:	gnome-core	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature, MoveUpstream
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2002-12-14 02:38:48 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	79600

Description schulz 2002-04-24 07:26:43 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686; Nav)

Description of problem:
gssapi is a generic API that is used e.g. for passing kerberos tickets
without giving passwords over and over again or - even worse - storing
them in the home dir. 

This is supported by the imap server as well as pine, fetchmail etc. 

The mailcheck applet requires the passing of passwords nevertheless.
This foils the efforts put in a kerberized setup. 

An enhancemant could be done in 2 ways:
a) implement gssapi support in the mailcheck applet
b) give a possibility to provide a command on whose exit code 
   mailcheck decides wether new mail arrived or not 
   (this alternative is much simpler, I suppose). 

In the second case, fetchmail -c -m gssapi could be used as 
command to run. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Request for enhancement. No need to reproduce.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-04-28 16:52:22 UTC

Most likely to get results upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-06 02:14:51 UTC

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87468

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-12-16 18:21:28 UTC

Changing to MoveUpstream keyword instead of GnomeUpstream tracking bug.
sorry about the spam.