16 Aug
2017
16 Aug
'17
1:46 a.m.
On Wed, August 16, 2017 7:50 am, Noel Butler wrote:
On 15/08/2017 22:58, voytek@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