i have a real nice setup going with qmail+vpop(4.10.32)+mysql and everything seems to be running very nice. i recompiled with --enable-clear-passwd=y and obviously my authentication went straight to hell because my existing database tables didn't have the now required pw_clear_passwd field. so i added the fields to each domain table and now i am faced with the problem. i need to take the encrypted password field and fill those pw_clear_passwd fields with something so i can authenticate once again. i know this works cause i tried doing this with just a few email accounts and as soon as i got a non-null value put in for pw_clear_passwd...authentication worked fine. please tell me i am not going to have to go through and reset a thousand passwords...please. thannx.