Testsuite: client script faciility for handling optional reponses

[exim.git] / src / src / smtp_in.c

diff --git a/src/src/smtp_in.c b/src/src/smtp_in.c
index b99b5cdbc15130a2facaa30951a4c0cca361e0c8..00c842760525b1e49632ab71bc5c78071132d1de 100644 (file)
--- 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))