kde sieve ioslave incorrectly reports "protocol error" when given quoted strings during authentication

[Arnt Gulbrandsen]

Binary package hint: kdepim-kio-plugins

The managesieve specificiation offers two formats for strings everywhere, "quoted" and {7+}
literal
and there are rules about when to use which format.

The KDE Sieve ioslave accepts both formats most of the time, but demands the literal format for SASL challenges. It incorrectly rejects SASL challenges that use quoted strings.

The specification contains two examples of legal challenges, see http://tools.ietf.org/draft/draft-martin-managesieve/draft-martin-managesieve-08.txt

KDE incorrectly disallows the form used in the first example. It allows only the form used in the second example.

If necessary I can provide access to a server which sends quoted challenges.

[Arnt Gulbrandsen (arnt+launchpad)]

oh, crap. I forgot to mention. This bug is still present in 8.04 and in this revision of the source: http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdepim/kioslaves/sieve/sieve.cpp?view=markup&pathrev=782973

[Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi,

I agree that this is a bug but it really needs to be fixed upstream. There's not much we can do about this at a distibution level. The best course of action is probably to report this at bugs.kde.org if you haven't already and link it here so we can track progress.

thanks,
Rich

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Is this bug still an issue for you in Kubuntu 9.04?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!