[MlMt] Can I view account password?

[Thomas Bartlett]

In the applications folder is a sub-folder called Utilities. In that sub-folder is an app called Keychain Access. When that app is opened, it shows on the dock an icon shaped like keys on a circular “chain.”  At the top of the left side column is the word “Keychains,” below which are five options:  Directory Services, login, iCloud, System, System Roots. After looking at them all, I opted for “login,” which is uniquely written in bold font; this displays a long list of keychain files. That is what I accessed.  Yes, there is another file, com.apple.Exchange.oauth-token with the same time stamp as the one mentioned in my earlier message, which shows an extremely long string of alphanumeric code.  When I select each of these two files, the file name is displayed in bold font in a header strip at the top of the window; the next line in the header says: “Kind: application password;” the third line says “Account:” following which is the username of my Hotmail account followed by @ and then an alphanumeric string which must be 60 digits long. The first file that I opened, reported in my earlier message shows a header that is essentially identical, except that the extremely long alphanumeric string is completely different.

So, if this is not what you meant,



> On Aug 30, 2020, at 1:55 AM, Thomas Bartlett via mailmate <mailmate at lists.freron.com> 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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