Bug#756258: exim4 configured with dovecot auth deadlocks

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2014-07-28 Mildred Ki'Lya <mildred-bug.debian at mildred.fr> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.80-7
> Severity: important

> Dear Maintainer,

> This is probably an upstream bug.

> When exim4 is configured with dovecot authenticator, it blocks at
> some point, apparently expecting some information from dovecot.
> Dovecot on its side is expecting additional information from exim.
> None of the two parties move forward and exim do not respond to the
> SMTp client. After some unspecified time, the MUA terminates the
> connection, because no response is sent from the server.
[...]

Hello,

Before digging further, can you doublecheck whether this still applies
to current exim (4.83)?

Rebuilding the packages from sid on stable is trivial it just needs a
change of build-dependcies:
---------------
--- exim4-4.83/debian/control   2014-07-26 09:24:19.000000000 +0200
+++ exim4-4.83/debian/control   2014-07-28 11:29:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-exim4/exim4.git
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.15), po-debconf, docbook-xsl, xsltproc,
   lynx-cur | lynx, docbook-xml, libpcre3-dev, libldap2-dev, libpam0g-dev,
-  libident-dev, libdb5.3-dev, libxmu-dev, libxt-dev, libxext-dev, libx11-dev,
+  libident-dev, libdb5.1-dev, libxmu-dev, libxt-dev, libxext-dev, libx11-dev,
   libxaw7-dev, libpq-dev, libmysqlclient-dev | libmysqlclient15-dev,
-  libsqlite3-dev, libperl-dev, libgnutls28-dev, libsasl2-dev
+  libsqlite3-dev, libperl-dev, libgnutls-dev, libsasl2-dev
 XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest

 Package: exim4-base
---------------

For your convenience there are pre-built binaries for amd64 on
deb https://people.debian.org/~ametzler/exim4wheezy/ ./

thanks, cu Andreas

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