Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:10:03 -0500 (EST) From: <ratbert@phoenix.aye.net> To: Terry Ewing <terry@dcomm.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981107010300.13687A-100000@phoenix.aye.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981106135151.009c12b0@mail1.dcomm.net>
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If the authentication info for post.office is stored in a text file and if a DES or MD5 password scheme is used you may be able to do some awking and grepping and create a master.passwd formatted type file from the info in it (or an /etc/poppasswd if you use checklocalpwd.c and go the virtual pop route). - Barrett On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Terry Ewing wrote: > Hi, > > We are currently running post.office as our mail server. We'd like to > migrate to qmail, but we can't find a way to extract the passwords > associated with the pop3 accounts. We've thought of a few ways to do this, > including writing a perl script that actually sits on the pop3 port and > proxies the requests saving the username and password as their mail clients > send them over. > > Somehow I think that something would crash the proxy script and our > production mail server would go down. Can anyone suggest a better way of > moving everyone en masse? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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