grooverdan/fail2ban — pull request #5 by truxoft (2014-01-13 00:39:12+00:00)
Title: Matching any Exim authentication name

As explained in https://github.com/grooverdan/fail2ban/pull/4, in Exim there can be used plenty of other standard authentication names, and in fact the names can be custom. The failregex in Exim filter should catch authentication errors regardless of the name of the authentication. Hence replacing the plain|login with the general \w+