[Pan-users] [Fwd: Pan and Microsoft SPA]

[Brian D. Ropers-Huilman]

I've done some follow-up work on this and have discovered:

There is a routine in nntp.c called nntp_spa_authenticate but from what I can 
tell, this code is never called. It is probably not called because there is no 
control setup to decide whether to call it or not (like a "This server 
requires SPA authentication" checkbox).

Is this a bug? PAN is an awesome newsreader an has claimed since it's 0.11.x 
days to have SPA authentication. Well, it does, but it's never executed! I'm 
going to send this and immediately head to the Bugzilla and do some digging or 
reporting.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Pan and Microsoft SPA
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 07:02:13 -0600
From: Brian D. Ropers-Huilman <address@hidden>
Organization: Louisisana State University - Office of Computing Services -
High Performance Computing
To: address@hidden

I figured this would be an annoying question, but after searching the
archives, I believe there is not much published information on the topic. Here
is what I know:

* Marc Prud'hommeaux pulled the original SPA code out of the Samba code
* as of PAN v0.11.1.90 SPA authentication was supported
* there is some concern that when the libesmtp code was "removed" SPA went with 
it

I've seen about five unique people ask about this and have not seen one direct
reply with the answer. I too, like most of the other's asking, would like to
use PAN instead of Outlook Express for my University of Phoenix classes. Since
we can check our SPA required e-mail through the university's web-site,
getting PAN to work is the last step in being able to do the whole thing on 
Linux.

I am running v0.14.0 on a Gentoo system and I would _/REALLY/_ appreciate a
response.

TIA,



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