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==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 nospam@briansnelson.com 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.