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

Beber beber at meleeweb.net
Fri Oct 13 18:07:17 UTC 2006


Le Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:12:13 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel
<ph10 at hermes.cam.ac.uk> a écrit :

> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Beber wrote:
> 
> > > I have integrated this patch (it needed a little work - see ChangeLog).
> > > I have done extremely preliminary testing against Dovecot 1.0_beta8 and
> > > I think it is OK. The code will be in tonight's snapshot. If anybody who
> > > is actually running Dovecot would like to do some more serious testing,
> > > that would be good.
> 
> > I'm just testing it for PLAIN and LOGIN auth, and I always get :
> > 
> > exim : 2006-10-12 19:15:16 login authenticator failed for
> > meathook.meleeweb.net [82.230.172.234]: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket read error or premature eof
> > 
> > dovecot : Oct 12 19:14:42 [dovecot] auth(default): BUG: Authentication client 5518 didn't specify service in request
> > 
> > did I miss something ?
> 
> Which release of Dovecot?

I use dovecot 1.0_beta8

Any chance to make it work with ? Maybe you recommanded a newer
release ?

> When I installed the patch I had to make a 
> small change because the Dovecot interface seemed to have changed. Let's 
> make sure it isn't that before we look further. Looking at the code, I 
> see that indeed, the change was concerned with "service". If you take a 
> look at the code in auths/dovecot.c you will find, around line 189, an 
> fprintf() statement and some comments about how it replaces another one,
> which I've left as a comment. You might like to try the alternative 
> statement and see if it works for you.
> 
> Thanks for testing!

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