Control: reopen -1 Control: reassign -1 dovecot Control: retitle -1 dovecot: should provide a way for exim to know that an authentication error is temporary
Scott Kitterman, le dim. 17 févr. 2019 03:42:14 -0500, a ecrit: > On Tue, 23 May 2017 09:52:14 +0200 Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> > wrote: > > Scott Kitterman, on mar. 23 mai 2017 01:25:06 -0400, wrote: > > > > Feb 20 18:22:41 toccata postfix/smtpd[2465]: warning: > > > unknown[12.216.224.110]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: Connection > > > lost > to > > > authentication server > > > > > > How would postfix know an authentication failure is temporary? > > > > Well, perhaps it's sasl which needs to be able to report differently to > > postfix, then. > > > > > Also, in this case do MUAs treat temporary and permanent errors > > > differently (if they don't this doesn't matter)? > > > > Yes. > > I don't think this is a postfix bug, so closing. Err, well, let's rather reassign the bug that scratching it, it poses problem to us on each mysql upgrade, potentially losing mail each time. Samuel
