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-rw-r--r--src/src/smtp_in.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/src/smtp_in.c b/src/src/smtp_in.c
index b99b5cdbc..00c842760 100644
--- a/src/src/smtp_in.c
+++ b/src/src/smtp_in.c
@@ -5508,7 +5508,9 @@ while (done <= 0)
/* Hard failure. Reject everything except QUIT or closed connection. One
cause for failure is a nested STARTTLS, in which case tls_in.active remains
- set, but we must still reject all incoming commands. */
+ set, but we must still reject all incoming commands. Another is a handshake
+ failure - and there may some encrypted data still in the pipe to us, which we
+ see as garbage commands. */
DEBUG(D_tls) debug_printf("TLS failed to start\n");
while (done <= 0) switch(smtp_read_command(FALSE, GETC_BUFFER_UNLIMITED))