Configuring Thunderbird using Kerberos/GSSAPI

For reasons of stability and security, please make sure that you always use the latest version of Thunderbird! The shown configuration is for Thunderbird 3.1.

The Setting shown here are for PC's in Institutes that are member of our KERBEROS.TU-HARBURG.DE Domain. For stand alone PC's or laptops at home or at the campus look here!

Start creating a new account at Tools->Account Settings->Account Actions->Add Mail Account:
Members of our KERBEROS.TU-HARBURG.DE Domain can use their kerberos ticket, a password is not required!

You only have to change your username to your account name.

Be shure Authentication method is set to Kerberos/GSSAPI.

At Composition & Addressing dissable compose messages in HTML format.

If you already have a lot of messages on the mail server and don't disable Message Synchronization, all messages will be downloaded in background to your computer. This might take a lot of time, disk space and and might be quite expensive if you do it over a mobile phone connection! Take care!

Our recommendation: Disable it. If you really need it you can later enable it on a per folder base.

Change the User Name on the Outgoing Server to you account name.

Another recommendation: