POP3 message retrieval

[Raghavendra Setty <ra...@tarangtech.com>]

Hi all,

I am using James - pop3. Below are the steps i am using to retrieve the
mails from server:

Store store = session.getStore("pop3");
store.connect("localhost", userName, password);
inbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");

The password what i get for a particular user from "users" table is
encrypted (SHA).

What should i do so that i can retrieve mails of the user. Please help
me to resolve this issue.

Thanks in advance,
Rag Setty




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Re: POP3 message retrieval

[Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>]

Raghavendra Setty wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using James - pop3. Below are the steps i am using to retrieve the
> mails from server:
> 
> Store store = session.getStore("pop3");
> store.connect("localhost", userName, password);
> inbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");
> 
> The password what i get for a particular user from "users" table is
> encrypted (SHA).
> 
> What should i do so that i can retrieve mails of the user. Please help
> me to resolve this issue.

You have to use the real password and not the one encrypted by James for 
its checks.

If you have a james user with username "foo" and password "bar" you 
simply use store.connect("localhost","foo","bar").

Simply ignore the SHA hash that James use for the password check: this 
is an internal thing.

Stefano


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Re: POP3 message retrieval

[Joachim Draeger <jd...@gmx.de>]

Hi,

Raghavendra Setty schrieb:


> I am using James - pop3. Below are the steps i am using to retrieve the
> mails from server:
> 
> Store store = session.getStore("pop3");
> store.connect("localhost", userName, password);
> inbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");

> The password what i get for a particular user from "users" table is
> encrypted (SHA).

AFAIK(!) James does not support storing plain passwords into the users table
out-of-the-box.
Without the plain password you can't connect to the pop3 Server because you 
can't recalculate the plain password from the SHA hash. (That's why SHA is used.)

So you have the following possibilities

1. I'm wrong and it is possibible to tell James to store plain passwords
2. You hack James to use plain passwords (start somewhere at 
JamesUsersJdbcRepository)
3. you get the plain password from another source
4. you read the mails directly, without javamail, from DB/File

Joachim


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Re: POP3 message retrieval

[Norman Maurer <nm...@byteaction.de>]

Hi

Joachim Draeger schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Raghavendra Setty schrieb:
>
>
>> I am using James - pop3. Below are the steps i am using to retrieve the
>> mails from server:
>>
>> Store store = session.getStore("pop3");
>> store.connect("localhost", userName, password);
>> inbox = store.getFolder("INBOX");
>
>> The password what i get for a particular user from "users" table is
>> encrypted (SHA).
>
> AFAIK(!) James does not support storing plain passwords into the users 
> table
> out-of-the-box.
> Without the plain password you can't connect to the pop3 Server 
> because you can't recalculate the plain password from the SHA hash. 
> (That's why SHA is used.)
Well it whould be nonsense to encrypt passwords if it whould be so easy 
to decrypt it :-P
>
> So you have the following possibilities
>
> 1. I'm wrong and it is possibible to tell James to store plain passwords

No you are right ;-)
> 2. You hack James to use plain passwords (start somewhere at 
> JamesUsersJdbcRepository)
We will add support for more encryption modes. I think we will also add 
clear storage.

> 3. you get the plain password from another source
This is the best solution ,,
> 4. you read the mails directly, without javamail, from DB/File
also possible
>
> Joachim 

bye
Norman



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