[Dbmail] DbMail Administrator (DBMA V2.0.2) is RC8 Compatible -- need steer on PSQL Encrypt

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Hello to All:
Congratulations to the dev group on the release of 20RC8. Nice job and 
many thanks for all your hard work! It is certainly a fine release 
candidate. Happy bug hunting.

I have been running it (from CVS) on both PostgreSQL and MySQL for about 
two weeks plus with the pre-rollback main.c/1.64 and have had no issues. 
In fact, it is a superior package by a long shot.

DBMA 2.0.2 (Administrator GUI) is fully compatible, if not favouring the 
release-destined RC8. (DBMA is a perl/web GUI for administering DbMail.)

I would like to poll PostgreSQL operators what if any preferences exist 
for the encryption of USER ACCOUNT PASSWORDS.

DBMA 2.0.2 uses MD5-Digest (md5sum) by default for MySQL which is a 
built-in since around v4.0 but I am in a quandary with PostgreSQL which 
seems to rely on contribs to handle md5 selects. There also seems to be 
quite a range of options. I wonder what seasoned PostgreSQL folks would 
favour? (Is anyone using PSQL 8-beta?)
I refer only to the method of storing mail user passwords in the 
database and not client authentication. That is not to imply that such 
user account encryption is essential but if you had the option, what 
would you choose and what contrib method do you favour?

Presently DBMA V2.0.2 defaults to 32-digit md5-digest for MySQL and 
plaintext for PostgreSQL, with manual options.

Substantial changes to enhance the user friendliness have been made to 
DBMA and to accommodate the vast range of databases, their versions, and 
the backward genealogy of DbMail. I invite folks to upgrade/ download a 
fresh copy at http://library.mobrien.com/dbmailadministrator/

DbMail Administrator (DBMA 2.0.1) is pointed toward the eventual 
2.0-Stable release but is backward compatible with pre-RC7/1.2.8/9 with 
a minor configuration setting. Please help yourself.

Any thoughts from PostgreSQL users would be much appreciated as I could 
use a steer in the right direction on encryption preferences and methods 
folks prefer for PgSQL.

best....
Mike