Re: [Dovecot] Root password or key access to pop3?

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...