On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:20:43PM -0200, Flavio Fonseca wrote: > Hello all, > > Let me quote qmail-ldap news: > > " checkpassword now supports the password format used by Netscape > Mailserver pre-3.0 and Software.com's Post.Office (NS-MTA-MD5). > That string is hex encoded, the first 32 Octets are the MD5 hashed > password and the second 32 Octets are the salt to the MD5 function. " > > > checkpassword supports NS-MTA-MD5 encoding, but this means I have to use > checkpassword in pop3d call instead of auth_pop for qmail-ldap??? >
As the above stuff was written there was no auth_pop tool. It was added shortly afterwards as the imap support was added. auth_pop has NS-MTA-MD5 capabilities. > If qmail-ldap using auth_pop supports Post.Office passwords what should I > do to migrate > the post.office acounts? I exported using the scripts available at > post.office package > and tried to authenticate using qmail and it has failed. > > Anyone managed to import post.office accounts could give me some directions? > AFAIK a few users have migrated from post.office but this is some time ago. Perhaps have a look at the mailing list archive (see 'tail -22 QLDAPINSTALL' or http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap for more info) -- :wq Claudio
