Comments by alexcoder99 (Top 3 by date)

When diagnosing any email connectivity related issues I find using Telnet to query the email server using the same credentials at the network level a really useful technique to identify any errors; once I have connectivity using Telnet its often just a case of building a connection using the same configuration in code

Why do you want to decrypt it? If you are performing a password comparison you need to compare two hashed values (using the same hash method to encrypt the plain text password)