As an IT consultant there is often a situation where you need to recover POP password for a user who forgot it. Users are often having several POP e-mail accounts configured, whether is for work or not. And it's usually not your responsibility if they are allowed or not. There is a quick way to recover POP e-mail passwords with Mail Password Decryptor.
You can also encounter a situation where you migrating a user's profile, and the password gets lost. The number of different e-mail clients is large, so in such a situations is good to have some tool to “hack” the passwords which are configured in POP client software, usually Outlook, or Outlook Express. Usually the process begins with to making sure that you got all the informations for those POP accounts before the migration process.
There are many tools for the job. One of those tools is called Mail Password Decryptor. The link provided is to a portable version (without some other bloatware). The main program window shows the e-mail accounts and the passwords.
It helps you recover passwords from the following programs:
- Microsoft Outlook Express
- Microsoft Outlook
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Windows Live Mail
- IncrediMail
- Foxmail
- Windows Live Messenger
- MSN Messenger
- GTalk
- GMail Notifier
- PaltalkScene IM
- Pidgin (Gaim) Messenger
- Miranda Messenger
- Windows Credential Manager
As you can see, the list is quite large. The above link provided for downloading the program is a link to portable version which is often sufficient. It's a good-to-have copy on an USB key when in the field…
Reporting capability
An interesting is reporting capability which creates a html file with user accounts and passwords. You can always dump the accounts informations into the html file and save this file just in case you're need it.
The utility is provided as Freeware from this link by Securityxploded.com
