[pmmail-list] Receive settings password - where stored

[John Thompson]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Xav wrote:

> Where does PMMail store the password for POP3 account receive ?   I use
> both OS/2 and Windows versions.  The OS/2 one works to collect from a
> remote server, but the Windows one doesn't.  I use the faciltity to
> collect mail for a relative from her ISP's mail server and know her
> password.  However, I can only assume that I set a different password
> to collect POP3 mail, which I put into the OS/2 box but forgot :-))

I use the serial line sniffer (pmlm.exe, from the SIO package) to capture
what's going through the serial port.  From there, it's relatively simple
to find the password: look for the string "USER
[whatever_her_pop3_username_is]" followed by "PASS this_is_the_password"

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-John (John.Thompson@attglobal.net)

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