[Dovecot] [exim] request to have dovecot authenticator driver 'officially' included/supported

[Philip Hazel]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> BTW. There are also two more fields that the Exim code doesn't currently
> support, but which might be useful for some people:
> 
> "secured": Set if SSL/TLS is used, or if remote IP == local IP
> 
> "valid-client-cert": Set if client certificate was received and it was
> verified to be trusted

I think I could add those (I didn't write the original code, but it 
looks easy enough to alter). Should they be added to the AUTH line, or 
given separately? Presumably tab-separated and without any =data added.
I don't really have any way of testing any of this.

> Well, another protocol that I recently wrote uses ';' as separator and
> escapes them using "\.". Still pretty human readable and writable, and
> simple to write parsers for. I guess that could have been a better
> choice for Dovecot auth protocol also, but it's now a bit too late to
> change it.

Indeed.

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