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authorPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2006-02-23 12:41:22 +0000
committerPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2006-02-23 12:41:22 +0000
commit4730f9424e0addeb902cc842508eea3f47a131ca (patch)
tree1aecf2add22e0e8206feb5ca136d626c765d294e /doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
parented72ace5f09d07c620b96efaf72d328d6e7439be (diff)
Make server prompts available in $auth<n> when plaintext is running as a
client.
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-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.89 2006/02/22 15:08:20 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.90 2006/02/23 12:41:22 ph10 Exp $
New Features in Exim
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@@ -74,6 +74,19 @@ PH/11 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
and H retry rules, and it seems reasonable to require a retry at least
once a day.
+PH/12 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server
+ challenges are now checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. The
+ default action on failure is to abort the authentication. However, if
+ client_ignore_invalid_base64 is set true, invalid responses are ignored.
+
+PH/13 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the challenges
+ from the server are placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as they are received.
+ Thus, the challege that is received in response to sending the first
+ string (with the AUTH command) can be used in the expansion of the second
+ string, and so on. Currently, up to 3 challenge strings are available in
+ this way. If an invalid base64 string is received when client_ignore_
+ invalid_base64 is set, an empty string is put in the $auth<n> variable.
+
Version 4.60
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