Hi John Jack:

Am 27.06.17 17:30 schrieb(en) [email protected]:
I need to connect to an MS Outlook Exchange Server. What I understood is that 
Balsa supports the GSSAPI (Kerberos based authentication scheme) and that this 
is required to connect to the Exchange server. Is this correct?

I'm not sure about M$ Exchange, but the Balsa git version does indeed support 
GSSAPI auth for POP3, IMAP and SMTP (older releases for IMAP only).  Balsa 
should automatically detect if GSSAPI is offered by the server and use it, 
without any other configuration being required.

What Kerberos parts exactly do I have to install on Xubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I'm not an expert for that, but on Debian, you at least need kinit to get a Kerberos 
ticket from the (Active Directory, in this case?) server, i.e. run "sudo apt-get 
install krb5-user".  Then you have to configure Kerberos; I installed a test system 
for testing the POP3 and SMTP kerberos support by installing a Samba4 server which did it 
for me, so actually I don't know what is needed for that.

Then, before starting Balsa, you have to say "kinit <username>" to get a ticket from the 
server which is used by, inter alia, Balsa.  "klist" will show the valid tickets.

As you message comes from a German domain, maybe this /very/ old article might help 
you: <http://www.linux-magazin.de/Ausgaben/2008/07/Gezaehmter-Hoellenhund>.

I would be very interested in your experiences, in particular for POP3 and 
SMTP, as I added support for it only recently, but could not really test it, 
only against a Samba4 server.  And as always, M$ may behave differently...

Hope this helps
Albrecht.

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