Rest Email Password for vpopmail

How to rest a email accounts password for vpopmail

When an account has been hacked and you need to change the password, you can do this via the command line if you are using vpopmail.

~vpopmail/bin/vpasswd [emailaddress] [newpassword]

Example

~vpopmail/bin/vpasswd [email protected] newpassword

vpopmail is a set of API that manages virtual user accounts on a qmail system, and handles delivery for these virtual users. The command-line utilities, and Qmailadmin all use the vpopmail API, provided by the vpopmail library to manage the system.