Bug#515503: exim4: dovecot_plain authenticator failed: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket read error or premature eof

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 07:27:31PM +0100, Philipp Kolmann wrote:
> > afaict this is basically cosmetic error. Is this correct? If yes a fix
> > for lenny will not happen, the only thing fixable in lenny post-release
> > are rc-bugs and security issues.
> 
> well, it's not completely cosmetic. Problem is, that if I enter the 
> password wrongly I need to stop the smtp session and start all over 
> again. In one session after a wrongly entered password, even if you 
> enter the right password, the authentication fails.

Is there a widely used mail client which tries to authenticate a
second time within the same SMTP session? afaik all Clients disconnect
and re-connect anyway.

> I can understand that this is too small for a lenny upload alone, but 
> maybe if you can add it, when you do an update.

That would probably not pass the release team's scrutiny.

Greetings
Marc

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