[Kde-pim] Re: [PATCH] Repacing libntlm

[Szombathelyi György]

Jason Keirstead wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 4:31 am, Szombathelyi György wrote:
> 
>>>Is there any way to integrate this into KMail so that the dependancy on
>>>Cyrus-SASL NTLM support is removed, and KMail can support NTLM out of the
>>>box?
>>
>>Cyrus-sasl is not just about NTLM. It supports many other mechanisms,
>>like GSSAPI, and is extendable via various plugins. I think it's a good
>>idea to keep it.
> 
> 
> I was not suggesting removing Cyrus-SASL
> 
> I was suggesting using KNTLM for the NTLM support, so that it can support NTLM 
> out of the box. 
> 
> NTLM is very, very, very common in corperate environments, and I think it is 
> something KMail should support without a thrid party liibrary if it is 
> possible using a library that will already be in kdelibs.
> 
NTLM is implemented as a SASL mechanism, so the SASL library should 
handle it. It is cyrus-sasl now. Without cyrus-sasl, mechanisms like 
PLAIN don't work, too.

Bye,
György