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Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

If an importer does not support importing passwords, then this is because the source system encrypts/hashes the password and they can not be retrieved. This will not change in any future version.

PS As already noted, you can easily sent out password emails to your members after the conversion

You can send them out. But the chances of them all arriving are minimal. And once you start hitting Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail with a lot of these emails your messages will either get blackholed or end up in the Trash can of the email user. I know from experience handling many conversions that the numbers of ordinary users who bother to check their Trash/Spam folder is neither impressive either.

It is possible to make SMF passwords usable within vBulletin. Yes you can't convert them, but you can work around the hash/encryption. We've done it in our own closed source application.

So I can definitely understand why plenty of SMF users are wary of doing things the way the vBulletin team wants them to handle the conversion.