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[feature] Support for kerberos authentification for IMAP #3485

Open arthurzenika opened 7 years ago

arthurzenika commented 7 years ago

It would be really nice if Nylas-mail could support kerberos (GSSAPI) tokens for authentication.

What operating system are you using?

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

Is the issue related to a specific email provider (Gmail, Exchange, etc.)?

IMAP

Feature Request?

Does this feature exist in another mail client or tool you use?

In most desktop email clients on linux, we frequently use Thunderbird with this feature : https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AFSService/ConfigureYourEmailClientForKerberosAuthentication

There seems to be some existing js libraries for interacting with kerberos https://www.npmjs.com/package/kerberos

Bonus question : could this be done in a plugin ?