Hi Benoit, Thanks for your suggestion. I will try to propose a prototype regarding this topic next week.
Regards, Quan On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM Benoit TELLIER <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Quan, > > Following the rule of thunb "it's a standard with a RFC" I think it makes > sense to lend this in James codebase. > > My personal preference would be as a guice extension jars, in > `protocols/sasl-kerberos` > -- > > > Best regards, > > Benoit TELLIER > > General manager of Linagora VIETNAM. > Product owner for Twake-Mail product. > Chairman of the Apache James project. > > Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (0033) 6 77 26 04 58 (WhatsApp, Signal) > > > > On Jul 16, 2026 9:23 AM, from Quan Tran Hong <[email protected]>Hi > James community, > > For a customer use case, we are considering extending Apache James SASL > support with the GSSAPI mechanism, enabling Kerberos-based authentication > as specified by RFC 4752 <rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4752.html>. > > Related Jira ticket: issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-4215. > > The intention would be to integrate it with James’s existing SASL > infrastructure and make it available to applicable protocols. > > Would the community be interested in receiving and maintaining this > contribution upstream? If not, we may instead implement and maintain it in > TMail Backend. > > Regards, > Quan >
