FS#40670 - [ssmtp] Problem with AuthPass

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Lukas (lukas.arch) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 01:13 GMT
Last edited by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Wednesday, 07 December 2016, 10:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

There is a bug in ssmtp.
When a password (AuthPass= ... in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf) contains '#' character then sending mail fails with Authorization error.
Probably its because # is taken as a comment character instead of not parsing everything between AuthPass= and <new line>.

Workaround is to change the password in both mail server and /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf to make sure it does not have '#' in it.

Additional info:
* package version: 2.64-5
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Closed by  Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Wednesday, 07 December 2016, 10:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 01:20 GMT
This isn't a packaging problem, have you reported it upstream?
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 01:25 GMT
Actually, it looks like there is no upstream anymore, and none of the Arch devs are interested in this package at all. I'll assign it to the last packager, but I doubt anything is going to happen.
Comment by Lukas (lukas.arch) - Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 01:28 GMT
I just reported it upstream
Comment by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Wednesday, 07 December 2016, 10:56 GMT
It should be rather dropped from repositories, which will happen on the next orphans cleanup. Closing.

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