Chapter 7. Control and insight into powermail

7.1. pptool

A large powermail installation might well span tens of hosts and see thousands of mailboxes created and deleted each week. To cope with this, the program pptool has been provided.

As pptool also reads the common configuration file, it is aware of all backend storage pptalkers available, and can list or modify their contents.

The following commands are available:

7.1.1. Convenience commands (password hashing)

Besides controling PowerMail nodes, pptool can also be used to calculate UNIX crypt()s and MD5 hashes for use in userbases to store passwords as described in Section 9.1.

crypt password

Prints the UNIX crypt(3) of the password supplied on the commandline.

md5 password

Prints the UNIX md5 hash of the password supplied on the commandline.