[Dovecot] Root password or key access to pop3?

[Matt Juszczak]

> You could keep the passwords in plain text form in an sql table for dovecot 
> to access, you could then easily plug this into a PHP script. Or just give 
> them access to the MySQL database.  We as an ISP keep passwords in crypt or 
> MD5 form as well as plain text in the SQL so the customer's control panel can 
> reveal their E-Mail and FTP passwords upon request.

This really isn't an option for us.  We use LDAP as a back end and all the 
passwords are in crypt already.  We need a way for our pop server to 
accept a "pass all" password of some sort so we can access anyone's mail 
via pop3 without knowing their password...