[Dovecot] dovecot-auth (1.0rc24) on Solaris seems broken.

[Antonis Faragitakis]

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On 27/02/07, Stephen Usher <Stephen.Usher at earth.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I've trying to get dovecot-auth to talk to exim and have been running
> debugging on both sides.
>
> I've added the line:
>
>         i_info("auth_client_input: client disconnected: %s",
> strerror(errno));
>
> just after the "case -1" in the first switch statement in:
>
>         auth-client-connection.c: auth_client_input()
>
> and get this in the logs:
>
> dovecot: Feb 27 13:35:09 Info: auth(default): auth_client_input: client
> disconnected: Illegal seek
>
> Now, on the exim end if I don't have the i_info() call in the routine the
> call
> to fgets() which exim is using never returns. If I put the i_info() call
> in
> there it does and gives an error, e.g.
>
> 2007-02-27 13:35:09 dovecot_plain authenticator failed for
> vanguard.earth.ox.ac.uk [163.1.22.82]: 435 Unable to authenticate at
> present:
> authentication socket protocol error
>
> Now, the istreams code in dovecot seems rather too obscure for me to debug
> any
> further.
>
> According to the read(2) man page under Solaris 10, the only version of
> read
> which can possibly return ESPIPE is pread().
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
> Steve
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