On 8 Jun 2011, at 21:01, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 06/08/2011 09:50 PM, dhottinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> I currently use .htaccess to prompt for username and password and point it to an ldap database running on my mailserver. Im considering moving all my mail accounts to gmail. Does anyone know if it is possible to authenticate with .htaccess pointing to gmail for info? >> >> thanks, >> >> ddh >> >> > > gmail will not expose authentication procedures to the outside world. > > This would be quite silly. Doesn't gmail fall within the bundle of google services that use - and give you - OpenID? If so, you could ask your server admin whether they'd consider using the third-party OpenID authentication module with Apache. -- Nick Kew Available for work, contract or permanent http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx