[Dovecot] Migration dbmail -> dovecot.

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Tue Jan 20 13:28:09 EET 2009


On 20.01.2009 12:20 Andrey Urtaykin wrote:
> Nice, but  how i can use it in migration ? i mean how to make dovecot 
> use passwords in this format ?
> And i just surprised by fact that google says "You`re fist one who want 
> to migrate from dbmail to dovecot"
> 
>> On 20.01.2009 10:42 Андрей Юртайкин wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi i want to migrate from dbmail to dovecot, the main problem is passwords.
>>> dbmail uses "md5-hash" wich crypt "111" to 
>>> "$1$tZNR7pR4$jMuuKWm7ljRyL8iEMfjep.".
>>>
>>> Tried all dovecot pass schemes thru `dovecotpw` and no one matches.
>>> The main question is how to migrate dbmail -> dovecot.

Please stop top posting!

You could either prefix the passwords with {MD5-CRYPT}
	-> {MD5-CRYPT}$1$YOy6751V$sC.VxIRcuXDDX1nhf2.Tl.
or put "default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT" in your dovecot-sql.conf.

(dbmail sounds like it is using a database)


Regards
Pascal
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