Cam writes:
Hi,Ok, i have a working courier setup now. Courier seems way rad... i'm actually using courier for the pop and imap, and then postfix for my MTA and a mysql backend for everything. Now it's just a matter of migrating my old setup over. the old mail server is using an old version of courier (maybe .43 i think), and was set up by a different guy who's no longer around. I'm writing a script in ruby to populate my mysql tables from his old userdb stuff. The problem i'm having is that the mysql tables are storing the passwords in plaintext, but userdb encrypts the passwords. How can i get the plaintext password from the script? Is it possible? Is there a better way to migrate?
It is impossible, according to the laws of physics in this universe.However, you can take the encrypted password in userdb, and stick them into a database table. This'll work, as long as you were not using CRAM authentication.
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