sendEmail with tls fails to authenticate on some servers (ie. postfix)
Bug #369735 reported by
Laurent Monin
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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sendemail (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: sendemail
When using sendEmail -o tls=auto to connect to a postfix server, it may fails if username and password are very long:
base64_encode() wraps lines using CRLF but postfix AUTH PLAIN is waiting for unwrapped lines.
Postfix outputs an error message like:
ERROR => Received: 535 5.7.0 Error: authentication failed: bad protocol / cancel
This issue was reported to sendEmail maintainer on 2008/10/14, though no new release including the fix was made for now.
Here is a patch that fixes this issue.
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Bug #187189 (marked as invalid) was perhaps related to this issue.