Bug#551106: exim4-daemon-heavy: exim segfaults with dovecot auth

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-10-15 Fabio Muzzi <debianbugs at kurgan.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.69-9
> Severity: important


> I have just set up exim4 to authenticate using Dovecot on two
> servers. Both are 64 bit, both use the same version of Exim4 and
> Dovecot (the latest up to date in Debian) and the configuration is
> the same for both Dovecot and Exim.

> While one works, the other segfaults sistematically when I try to
> use the dovecot authentication for SMTP sessions. If I use another
> auth method, it works.
[...]

How is dovecot configured? (Ldap, sql, plain files, pam)? I cannot
reproduce the crash here with passdb lookup. Do you use some fancy nss
helper (ldap)?

cu andreas
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