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In M2, Mail & Chat Accounts -> Edit -> Servers. Says, "password not displayed". I have so many accounts I can't keep track of all the passwords. I'd like to display the password. How to do?Well that sucks. Who came up with that idea? Mozilla Thunderbird lets you reveal passwords. So, how can I do password recovery? Tell it to use nonsecure communication and then sniff the wire? Will changing security settings reset my password?
Originally posted by superjuster:
Tell it to use nonsecure communication and then sniff the wire?
*If* the server doesn't reject the nonsecure connection right from the beginning, yep.
Note that you used to be able to set "incoming log file=" in accounts.ini to enable logging. Then, in the log file, you'd see your password. But, this was later fixed to not reveal the password because users hated having to go through the whole log to remove the password before they uploaded the log to a bug report etc.
Unfortunately, when it was disabled, an option to turn it back on was never created, as far I know.
Even then though, the logging deal was only a workaround and there should be a UI option for this.
Now, you could install an older Opera (maybe 9.x still revealed the password. I don't remember), overwrite its wand.dat with yours and replace its accounts.ini in its mail folder with your accounts.ini and edit that accounts.ini to do an incoming log. Then, just starting up the older Opera should create a log with the password in it. No guarantees.
Originally posted by superjuster:
Will changing security settings reset my password?
I don't think so.
I forgot about http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/opera_password_recovery.html
If you close down Opera, load that up, click the advanced button and browse to your wand.dat file in Opera's preferences folder (see Help -> About Opera), you might be able to retrieve your passwords (as long as you're not using a master password). Can't say for sure though. The program might only show passwords for sites and not your email passwords.
If you close down Opera, load that up, click the advanced button and browse to your wand.dat file in Opera's preferences folder (see Help -> About Opera), you might be able to retrieve your passwords (as long as you're not using a master password). Can't say for sure though. The program might only show passwords for sites and not your email passwords.
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