Bug#515503: exim4: dovecot_plain authenticator failed: 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket read error or premature eof

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-02-15 Philipp Kolmann <philipp at kolmann.at> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.69-9
> Severity: normal

> I have setup exim 4.69 with dovecot auth and saw this error when the password
> was entered wrong:

> 2009-02-15 20:49:52 dovecot_login authenticator failed for [xxx]:
> 435 Unable to authenticate at present: authentication socket read error or
> premature eof

> I found that this bug is fixed for 4.70 here:

> http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667

> Would it be possible to add this fix to lenny for 5.0.1.

> thanks
> Philipp

Hello,

afaict this is basically cosmetic error. Is this correct? If yes a fix
for lenny will not happen, the only thing fixable in lenny post-release
are rc-bugs and security issues.
cu andreas

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