On 2014-07-28 Mildred Ki'Lya <mildred-bug.deb...@mildred.fr> wrote: > Package: exim4 > Version: 4.80-7 > Severity: important
> Dear Maintainer, > This is probably an upstream bug. > When exim4 is configured with dovecot authenticator, it blocks at > some point, apparently expecting some information from dovecot. > Dovecot on its side is expecting additional information from exim. > None of the two parties move forward and exim do not respond to the > SMTp client. After some unspecified time, the MUA terminates the > connection, because no response is sent from the server. [...] Hello, Before digging further, can you doublecheck whether this still applies to current exim (4.83)? Rebuilding the packages from sid on stable is trivial it just needs a change of build-dependcies: --------------- --- exim4-4.83/debian/control 2014-07-26 09:24:19.000000000 +0200 +++ exim4-4.83/debian/control 2014-07-28 11:29:03.000000000 +0200 @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-exim4/exim4.git Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.15), po-debconf, docbook-xsl, xsltproc, lynx-cur | lynx, docbook-xml, libpcre3-dev, libldap2-dev, libpam0g-dev, - libident-dev, libdb5.3-dev, libxmu-dev, libxt-dev, libxext-dev, libx11-dev, + libident-dev, libdb5.1-dev, libxmu-dev, libxt-dev, libxext-dev, libx11-dev, libxaw7-dev, libpq-dev, libmysqlclient-dev | libmysqlclient15-dev, - libsqlite3-dev, libperl-dev, libgnutls28-dev, libsasl2-dev + libsqlite3-dev, libperl-dev, libgnutls-dev, libsasl2-dev XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest Package: exim4-base --------------- For your convenience there are pre-built binaries for amd64 on deb https://people.debian.org/~ametzler/exim4wheezy/ ./ thanks, cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org