Hi Jesse,

>   dbmail supports both md5 hash and digest.  For the digest, try using
> a type of "md5sum" instead of "md5".  The value in the database can
> actually be in either format if encryption_type is "md5" (it looks at
> the first 3 chars and if it's $1$ it's an md5 hash), but if you tell
> it to create with an "md5" password format, you get the hash.  The
> hash is of course much better for security if someone ever gets a copy
> of your users table (it takes a tremendous amount more resources to
> generate a dictionary table for md5 hashes than the digest, which has
> a 1-1 ratio with the plaintext password).

Yes that works fine, I missed that in the man page, sorry.
Better security would be fine, but exim needs a md5 digest.


Thomas
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