Auths: in plaintext authenticator, fix parsing of consecutive circuflex. Bug 2687

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diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 302a62312ecc2f10d03d17ddb41109bf51f7229a..15b03eabbe43909ca04e7feb8dc99b6164ce7b05 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -3885,7 +3885,9 @@ id, and the remaining ones must be email addresses. However, if the message is
 active (in the middle of a delivery attempt), it is not altered. This option
 can be used only by an admin user.
 
-.vitem "&%-MC%&&~<&'transport'&>&~<&'hostname'&>&~<&'sequence&~number'&>&&&
+.vitem "&%-MC%&&~<&'transport'&>&~<&'hostname'&>&&&
+       &~<&'host&~IP'&>&&&
+       &~<&'sequence&~number'&>&&&
         &~<&'message&~id'&>"
 .oindex "&%-MC%&"
 .cindex "SMTP" "passed connection"
@@ -27822,7 +27824,14 @@ fixed_plain:
   client_send = ^username^mysecret
 .endd
 The lack of colons means that the entire text is sent with the AUTH
-command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs. A similar example
+command, with the circumflex characters converted to NULs.
+.new
+Note that due to the ambiguity of parsing three consectutive circumflex characters
+there is no way to provide a password having a leading circumflex.
+.wen
+
+
+A similar example
 that uses the LOGIN mechanism is:
 .code
 fixed_login:
@@ -28179,6 +28188,10 @@ supplied by the server.
 .option server_channelbinding gsasl boolean false
 Do not set this true and rely on the properties
 without consulting a cryptographic engineer.
+. Unsure what that's about.  It might be the "Triple Handshake"
+. vulnerability; cf. https://www.mitls.org/pages/attacks/3SHAKE
+. If so, we're ok, requiring Extended Master Secret if TLS
+. Session Resumption was used.
 
 Some authentication mechanisms are able to use external context at both ends
 of the session to bind the authentication to that context, and fail the
@@ -38310,8 +38323,11 @@ parentheses afterwards.
 When more than one address is included in a single delivery (for example, two
 SMTP RCPT commands in one transaction) the second and subsequent addresses are
 flagged with &`->`& instead of &`=>`&. When two or more messages are delivered
-down a single SMTP connection, an asterisk follows the IP address in the log
-lines for the second and subsequent messages.
+down a single SMTP connection, an asterisk follows the
+.new
+remote IP address (and port if enabled)
+.wen
+in the log lines for the second and subsequent messages.
 When two or more messages are delivered down a single TLS connection, the
 DNS and some TLS-related information logged for the first message delivered
 will not be present in the log lines for the second and subsequent messages.