This page describes how to connect to the MySQL database to execute statements.
Step 1: Determine MySQL password
If you are using an external version of MySQL, you should already know your MySQL password. If you are using the built-in MySQL version that comes with hMailServer, you might not know your password. To determine it, follow these steps:
- Open up hMailserver.ini, located in your Windows directory.
- If you can't find passwordencryption=1 in the file, locate the password in the file and go to Step 2: Connect to the server below.
- Run the script \hMailServer\Addons\Utilities\DecryptBlowfish.vbs.
- Copy the password from hMailServer.ini to the DecryptBlowfish dialog.
- Click OK in DecryptBlowfish to view your password. DecryptBlowfish will now show your password. Either keep the dialog open or memorize the password.
Step 2: Connect to the server
To connect to MySQL, you need a MySQL client. You can use
MySQL Front for this.
- Download and unzip MySQLFront
- Run MySqlFront.exe
- In the connection dialog, click New
- Enter the connection information for your MySQL server. If you are using the built-in server, you should enter hostname: localhost, user:root, password:the password, port:3307
- Click Connect to connect to the database server
Now you have connected to MySQL.
Step 3: Executing statements
After you have connected to MySQL, you can execute statements by following these steps:
- In the tree-menu to the left, click on the hmailserver database. To the right, you now see a list over tables in the database.
- Over the list of tables, there is a "tab" with the title Query. Click on this tab.
- Enter your SQL-query
- Click on the Execute SQL button in the keyboard, or press F9 on the keyboard to run the query