Tim D?sterhus:
> Yes, I understand that if I'm pretending to be Dovecot that I should
> talk like Dovecot or at least follow the protocol as documented in
> Dovecot's Wiki. The protocol error in my implementation is already fixed.
>
> It's just that Postfix never ever crashed on me before and I believe
> that it should never crash, even when facing protocol errors in talking
> to an "internal" service. Therefore I reported this issue with what I
> consider as much information as possible to make it easy enough for you
> to fix.
>
> I take the patch at the bottom of your email as "this patch is included
> in the next release" and thus consider this case closed.
The code was contributed and not subjected to detailed verification.
It needs more work; during cursory examination I found that smtpd(8)
will abort after a safety check fails, when the "Dovecot" server
replies OK without sending username info back to the Dovecot client.
I'm traveling at the moment and do not have time for a detailed
analysis.
Wietse
