I think we dropped support for KPOP, but do still have support for the
KERBEROS_V4 SASL mechanism over POP if you can use that...?

Jeff

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:48, David Kettler wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
>       I did one of my regular Debian (unstable) updates today, and 
> among other things it upgraded Evolution from 1.08 to 1.2.
> Unfortunately, the one feature I actually care about the most is broken: namely 
> Kerberos support.  Evolution has (or at least had) excellent kerberos 
> support built right in so I never had to resort to using an external 
> program like fetchmial or something similar.  I would fetch my tickets with a 
>standard Kerberos implementation and then evolution would handle the rest.
>       However now it doesn't work.  The option of using Kerberos 
> authentication is still there, and I get my ticket with kinit as always, 
> but Evolution just doesn't care.  It still asks me for a plain text password when I 
>check my mail!  Note that this isn't the kind of behavior I would experience before 
>if I didn't have a ticket or the ticket expired, etc.  Previously if I didn't have a 
>ticket it was smart enough to tell me as much.  But now, 
> despite the fact that Kerberos authentication is still selected, the 
> program is behaving as if it was expecting a regular old plain text 
> password; it's ignoring the Kerberos stuff entirely.  Furthermore, since I use the 
>kerberos tickets for more than just checking email I know that at least the Kerberos 
>side of things is still working.  It's just evolution that seems to be the problem.  
>Since my university requires Kerberos for checking our email accounts (and that's 
>primarly what I've been using Evolution for), the program has effectively become 
>useless to me.
>       So what can I do to fix this?  Thanks.
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  - www.ximian.com


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