[dovecot] Re: STARTTLS hangs due to client_skip_line (Was: Re: Plain auth broken)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 08:28, Amelia A.Lewis wrote:
> Eventually, I determined what's happening, to some degree.  Alas, I've
> been programming in Java for five years, so I have trouble debugging a
> real programming language.

Java is real too :)

> Adding debugging to client_skip_line (i_info with the
> contents of data) shows that, after the starttls command,
> client_skip_line discards the whole next command (in my case, a0002
> CAPABILITY).  The client is waiting for a response.  The server is
> waiting for a command (having discarded one).  login times out sixty
> seconds later, for inactivity.

Yes, so it seems.

> No one else seems to be having this sort of problem, though.  Is that
> because most folks are using TLS on the imaps port?  Or have I got a
> misconfiguration that runs somehow deeper?  I don't *think* I'm chasing
> a wild hare.

I've tested STARTTLS only with Evolution which I guess didn't mind about
not getting a reply to next command.

Here's a patch, thanks for bug report :)

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