Archive for January, 2006

PostfixAdmin, Courier, MySQL, MD5

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I am writing this mostly for personal reference - I couldn’t figure out how Courier successfully authenticated POP3/IMAP access via MySQL as PostfixAdmin stores the passwords in the MySQL table using a custom function (or so it says - pacrypt)..

However I have discovered that although the function is custom, Courier also has a method to produce the exact same digest using an 8 character salt (md5cryptredhat)

So that’s how it works!

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