Re: Balsa 2.5.6-1:Cannot initialize GSS security context

[JohnJackDoe tele2 de]

Hello Albrecht:

first of all many thanks for your support.

I am using balsa git version 2.5.3a-144-g8d6ac09 on my old 32 bit  
machine and it works perfectly with the Microsoft server. As a  
temporary workaround I compose emails for the business account of my  
employer on my new 64 bit machine, and copy the mail file to my 32 bit  
old machine for sending.

I don't think that the observed problem is a general one of balsa  
because it was working before perfectly. Maybe some code was changed  
from git version 2.5.3a-144-g8d6ac09 to version 2.5.6-1, or a library  
was changed.

BR,
John Jack Doe

On 14 Dec 2018 19:31:14, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi John Jack Doe:
>
> Am 13.12.18 15:50 schrieb(en) JohnJackDoe tele2 de:
> > It seems that everything is working well with the exception of  
> > sending mails via the IMAP account (the only one I have) of an  
> > Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service. I always get the failure message  
> > 'Connecting SMTP server x@x.x (email@x.x) failed: cannot initialize  
> > GSS security context: An invalid status code was supplied'.
>
> I tried to reproduce the issue with the latest GIT code, sending  
> messages to a Postfix server with GSSAPI enabled, but I unfortunately  
> cannot reproduce the issue (i.e. it works for me).  The error message  
> is confusing, but all we can get from the kerberos libs…  Maybe  
> Microsoft behaves differently as expected by the Linux libs; I don't  
> have access to such a machine.
>
> Did you check if you have a valid Kerberos ticket (say “klist”)?  Did  
> you use Kerberos authentication on your old machine?  As the server  
> offers other authentication methods, it might be an option to disable  
> Kerberos.  Unfortunately, the code does not try to fall back to an  
> other method if Kerberos fails, I'll fix that.
>
> I will set up a vm with your config and try to reproduce the issue,  
> but this will take some time, as well as the fallback method if  
> Kerberos fails (I'll be away from my development box during the next  
> few days).
>
> Cheers,
> Albrecht.