Jesse Norell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   There's no bug there - that's how your crypt() works (and
> most traditional crypt() implimentations).  That was the single
> biggest migration pain when we moved to dbmail; users wrote
> down 8 char passwords when they signed up, but typed more than
> 8 chars into their email client.  It worked fine under the old
> crypt() we had, but with dbmail we moved to md5 hash passwords,
> and those users broke.  If you want more than 8 chars to be
> significant, use md5 passwords (hash, or even md5sum checksums).
> 
> jn

Thanks for confirming, I had a feeling it might have been something like
this as soon as I hit the sent button. 

Sorry for causing any alarm,

Matt

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