[pmmail-list] Receive settings password - where stored

[Paul Ratcliffe]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 13:42:51 +0100 (BST), Xav wrote:

>Where does PMMail store the password for POP3 account receive ?

In the ACCT.INI file, but it is not plain text.

>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.

On OS/2 you could do this:
1) Use X-Ray (from Hobbes) to snoop the password field in the Account 
Settings/Receive dialog
2) Use IPTRACE/IPFORMAT to log a connection to the POP server and then 
extract the password from that.

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