On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 06:33:14PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 09:53:32AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hear, hear. "How do I deliver mail?" is a per-system setting, not a > > per-application setting, and the move towards having MUAs talking SMTP > > directly to send mail is a flawed model picked up on the Linux desktop from > > certain other OSes. The right solution here is to fix the MTAs to be > > configurable from the desktop, and fix the MUAs to use the MTA - *not* to > > get rid of the MTA.
> Until you can get an MTA to deliver mail to a smarthost authenticating > via GSSAPI with the Kerberos credentials of the sending user, I'm > going to keep using mutt's SMTP support. TTBOMK, no MTA in Debian > supports outgoing GSSAPI authentication *at all*, let alone with the > specific user credentials. Only a few MTAs support per-user > configuration on any level at all. postfix most definitely supports GSSAPI authentication, because it supports SASL and GSSAPI is just one more SASL mechanism. But yes, per-user GSSAPI authentication passed through the MTA is non-trivial, and is one of the better justifications why MUAs need to talk SMTP. They just shouldn't do so by default. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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