Bug#604412: cyrus-clients-2.2: pop3test doesn't handle CAPA rejection gracefully

[brian m. carlson]

Package: cyrus-clients-2.2
Version: 2.2.13-19
Severity: normal

Some POP3 servers simply don't support CAPA and complain with "-ERR" if
it's attempted.  Other servers insist upon authentication first (how
that's supposed to happen if you don't know what authentication methods
are available, I don't know).  pop3test doesn't handle this gracefully
and just gives up, even if -m user is passed on the command line.
pop3test should handle this gracefully and try USER/PASS or APOP
instead, or whatever method was specified with -m.

Transcript:

  lakeview ok % pop3test pop.secureserver.net
  S: +OK <2047.1290385034 at p3pop01-02.prod.phx3.gdg>
  C: CAPA
  S: -ERR authorization first
  QUIT
  ^C


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cyrus-clients-2.2 depends on:
ii  libasn1-8-heimdal         1.4.0-1        Heimdal Kerberos - ASN.1 library
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-7       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2                1.41.12-2      common error description library
ii  libdb4.7                  4.7.25-10      Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgssapi2-heimdal        1.4.0-1        Heimdal Kerberos - GSSAPI support 
ii  libkrb5-26-heimdal        1.4.0-1        Heimdal Kerberos - libraries
ii  libroken18-heimdal        1.4.0-1        Heimdal Kerberos - roken support l
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-6 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libssl0.9.8               0.9.8o-3       SSL shared libraries

cyrus-clients-2.2 recommends no packages.

cyrus-clients-2.2 suggests no packages.

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