On Jul 31, 2007 11:42 AM, Chris Laif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using SMTP auth with Exim authenticating against Dovecot's auth > socket. The (excellent) SMTP test tool "swaks" > (http://jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks) tries multiple auth mechanismus > consecutively which leads to the following message in Dovecot's log > file: > > Error: auth(default): BUG: Authentication client gave a PID 6738 of > existing connection >
This bug can be fixed by adding a "close(fd);" in src/auths/dovecot.c. Without the close()-call Exim does not shut down the connection and a subsequent connection (announcing the same client PID during handshake) will fail. You'll most likely see the above warning message if a SMTP client tries multiple auth mechanisms with a wrong password. Would be nice to have this fixed upstream in the Exim source. Please also have a look at: http://www.exim.org/lurker/message/20071127.164551.f35ace1e.ja.html Chris -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
