Hello,
I'm curious if anyone has had any luck converting Post.Office (v3.5.3)
to IMail to include passwords? As per the KB article on the IMail
website (http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19990922-DM02.htm) there is
no way to retrieve the plaintext of the encoded (hashed, really)
password from Post.Office. Since I'm not looking forward to manually
calling or otherwise contacting each person in the current Post Office
database (~2500 people) I'm looking for alternative suggestions. The
current output from Post Office looks like this basically:
pop login name ; hashed password ; real name
I.e.:
beck;2b2a1e2ef4a05777c2d348f7e93bcd4288bf1e337904e2a8bd5f79fb6739bb27;Aaron
Beck
I'm not too interested in finding the decrypted value of the hash,
rather I was thinking more along the lines of running a CGI program that
would ask for the user's current password, then hash it using the same
method that Post Office uses, then compare the strings to each other.
If they match, send the request to IMail to update their account to the
correct password. Problem (and my headache) would be solved. So,
either I need a way to decrypt the hashed passwords into plaintext in a
reasonable time, or some information on how Post Office hashes the
password (or even better, a program that does the hashing itself). Any
help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
- Kurtis Schlimme
Cillnet Internet
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