We are about to migrate our customers to new servers, from IMail 6 (where each customer have their own dedicated IP address) to IMail 8 (where we can to use VIRTUAL domains with a shared ip address).

We'll move a fair amount of customers per day, but we only need to know the customers' passwords.

Is there a way we can get them?

What do we have to do in order to transfer those accounts without changing the password for each customer?

Please help us guys.

Thanks!

fLim

i guess that the passwords are in hash, hence, you can not recover them

the hash function does not have reverse function

Regards,
Dmitri Elgin,
http://imailzip.com

Not even with a backup of the user database that IMail uses?

I mean, by moving the user database through FTP to the new server shouldn't that work, if there's no way of obtaining users' passwords.

Thanks!

yes, if you just replace old users preferences with new ones

generally, you do not need to recover original passwords, you just need to replace the appropriate hash password values from one field to another

Regards,
Dmitri Elgin,
http://imailzip.com

And I assume (correctly?) those hash passwords are located at the user database ..

Thanks!

yes, either in external database or in system registry

for example:

HKLM\Software\Ipswitch\Imail\Domains\list.ipswitch.com\Users\craig

[Password E2D0E47E9DEE1D5]

Regards,
Dmitri Elgin,
http://imailzip.com

In fact, the passwords use a two-way (reversible) hash.  IPlus (http://iplus.martek.net) is a good password dump tool.

Nonetheless, as stated, you do not need to recover the password to move the users from one server to another.  You can just move the hashed value over.

--Sandy

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Well thank you so much Sandy.

Thanks!