On 16.8.2012, at 4.07, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > 38 month ago, I submitted a patch to increase > AUTH_WORKER_MAX_LINE_LENGTH to use exotic authentication scheme (see > message below). The patch was accepted, but now I upgrade to dovecot > 2.1.7, I face the same problem with MASTER_AUTH_MAX_DATA_SIZE. I had to > increase it from 1024 to 4096. > > Is it safe to do so? Would such a change be accepted upstream? The patch > is below.
Couldn't you change the client to use AUTHENTICATE PLAIN command instead? The buffer wouldn't be a problem then..
