[MlMt] Can I view account password?

[Thomas Eckhold]

I did not refer to the keychain file. I doubt that the token includes 
your password in cleartext.

Mac OS includes a service app called „Keychain“ to manage passwords 
(see [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keychain_(software))) . It is 
located in a subfolder of the app folder.

In this app the system stores all passwords used by MM as well. Search 
for the name of the mailserver used by hotmail and invoke the details of 
a stored item with CMD-i (for information).

Regards,

Thomas


On 30 Aug 2020, at 10:55, Thomas Bartlett via mailmate wrote:

> Thank you.  I found a login keychain file labelled 
> "com.apple.Exchange.oath-refresh-token."  Opening it, I opted to view 
> the password. It was a ten digit string consisting of mostly random 
> alpha-numeric and punctuation symbols. Looks plausible.  So I tried 
> inserting it in the Skype login both on MacBook and on iPhone Spark 
> app, but to no avail.  I’m getting extremely frustrated trying to do 
> it this way. I think there must be some other factor that’s getting 
> in the way.  Has Skype simply dropped accessing Hotmail?
>
> Thanks for your tip. In the past I’ve been too unfamiliar with using 
> the keychain files. But maybe it’s not too late to learn some of it.
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
>> On Aug 30, 2020, at 12:18 AM, Thomas Eckhold <Thomas at Eckhold.eu> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Passwords should be stored in the keychain of MAC OS not in MM 
>> itself. Did you take a look there? Search for the name of the 
>> provider not MM.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Thomas
>>
>> Von meinem iPhone gesendet
>>
>>> Am 30.08.2020 um 08:17 schrieb Thomas Bartlett via mailmate 
>>> <mailmate at lists.freron.com>:
>>>
>>> I use four email clients in my MacBook Pro: MailMate, Apple Mail, 
>>> MS Outlook, and Spark.  In the first three I have a Hotmail account 
>>> that functions properly. In Spark, it used to run properly but is 
>>> now saying I need to login again. But I don’t have a record of the 
>>> password and the Spark process apparently does not allow for 
>>> resetting a lost password.
>>>
>>> So I though I’d try copying the Hotmail password from one of the 
>>> three other clients in which the Hotmail account is functioning 
>>> properly. In MS Outlook, for my six email accounts, the two Gmail 
>>> accounts do not show a password, but in settings for the other four 
>>> non-Gmail accounts, three show the current password, but the Hotmail 
>>> settings show no password; the box is simply blank, although the 
>>> account is functioning.
>>>
>>> So, in MailMate, is there some way I can view and copy the current 
>>> password of an active and functioning account, so that I can copy it 
>>> to the Spark login?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance to anyone who troubles to contribute to solving 
>>> this not very sophisticated problem.
>>>
>>> Thomas
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