migrating 2.1 to 3.x, sql pass scheme, pass value?

[voytek at sbt.net.au]

On Wed, August 16, 2017 7:50 am, Noel Butler wrote:
> On 15/08/2017 22:58, voytek at sbt.net.au wrote:


> Use:   CRYPT
> This allows you to use whatever your system supports in your database
> password fields, with modern OS's thats anything from md5 (shudder the
> thought) to salted sha512 and probably more these days depending on what
> other goodies your distro adds, dovecot will send it to the underlying OS
> crypt function that does all the hard work.

Noel,

thanks again for help and explanations.

(what went wrong for me, I thought I knew actual password, seeing the long
random string in dovecot_mysql file, then assumed it must be hashed
version of what I knew as password, anyhow, that part working now)

V