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 Mail PassView v1.42 - Recover lost mail passwords

Description

Mail PassView is a small password-recovery tool that reveals the passwords and other account details for the following email clients:
  • Outlook Express
  • Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only)
  • Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003/2007 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts)
  • Windows Mail
  • IncrediMail
  • Eudora
  • Netscape 6.x/7.x (If the password is not encrypted with master password)
  • Mozilla Thunderbird (If the password is not encrypted with master password)
  • Group Mail Free
  • Yahoo! Mail - If the password is saved in Yahoo! Messenger application.
  • Hotmail/MSN mail - If the password is saved in MSN/Windows/Live Messenger application.
  • Gmail - If the password is saved by Gmail Notifier application, Google Desktop, or by Google Talk.

For each email account, the following fields are displayed: Account Name, Application, Email, Server, Server Type (POP3/IMAP/SMTP), User Name, and the Password.

If your email program is not supported by Mail PassView, you can still recover your password by using this Password Sniffer

Known Problems

False Alert Problems: Some Antivirus programs detect Mail PassView utility as infected with Trojan/Virus.

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Versions History

Date Version Description
11/12/2007 1.42
  • Added support for retrieving Hotmail/MSN mail accounts from the latest version of Windows Messenger.
  • Added support for Gmail Notifier application under IE7.
27/10/2007 1.41
  • Configuration is now saved to a file instead of the Registry.
14/09/2007 1.40
  • Added support for SMTP and NNTP accounts on Windows Mail.
  • Fixed problems with Thunderbird 2 accounts.
07/04/2007 1.38
  • Added support for Windows Mail.
15/11/2006 1.37
  • Added support for Gmail passwords stored by Google Desktop.
23/06/2006 1.36
  • Fixed bug: Mail PassView didn't show Netscape/Thunderbird accounts when using save command-line options.
13/05/2006 1.35
  • Added support for passwords stored by Google Talk.
18/12/2005 1.34
  • Added support for newer versions of Gmail Notifier.
27/11/2005 1.33
  • Added support for IMAP accounts in Mozilla Thunderbird
  • New column: Profile - displayed for Outlook Express and MS-Outlook 2002/2003.
  • Option to select another folder/file for Thunderbird, Netscape, and Eudora.
26/08/2005 1.32
  • Added support for Hotmail/MSN mail password stored by MSN Messenger 7.5
  • Added support for Windows XP style.
10/12/2004 1.31 Fixed bug with Mozilla Thunderbird accounts.
05/11/2004 1.30
  • Added support for Netscape 6.x/7.x and Mozilla Thunderbird.
  • Added support for Yahoo! Mail - If the password is saved in Yahoo! Messenger application.
  • Added support for Hotmail/MSN mail - If the password is saved in MSN Messenger application.
  • Added support for Gmail - If the password is saved by Gmail Notifier application.
  • Passwords of Outlook Express are now decrypted even if they are not stored in the Protected Storage.
22/06/2004 1.20
  • Added support for Outlook 2003.
  • All Outlook accounts are now displayed, even if their password is not stored in the system.
  • New options: Choose Columns, HTML reports, find, and more...
  • Ability to translate to other languages.
02/06/2003 1.13
  • Added support for multiple identities in Outlook Express.
  • In Eudora and Incrdimail accounts - The accounts are now displayed even if there is no password.
30/05/2003 1.12 Starting from this version, all accounts of Eudora are shown, not only the Dominant account.
23/05/2003 1.11 Fixed bug: In previous version, Mail PassView failed to display IncrediMail accounts in some computers.
15/05/2003 1.10
  • Added support for SMTP accounts in MS Outlook 2000 and Outlook Express.
  • Added support for POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts in MS Outlook 2002
  • Saving accounts information into HTML file.
30/04/2003 1.00 First Release

License

This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution package, without any modification !

Disclaimer

The software is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages due to loss of data or any other reason.

Using the Mail PassView utility

This utility is a standalone executable. It doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs. Just run the executable (mailpv.exe) and watch the list of your email accounts. You can save the accounts information into a text file or copy them to the clipboard.

You can also save the email accounts information by using the following command-line options:

/stext <Filename> Save all email accounts into a regular text file.
/stab <Filename> Save all email accounts into a tab-delimited text file.
/stabular <Filename> Save all email accounts into a tabular text file.
/shtml <Filename> Save all email accounts into HTML file.
/sverhtml <Filename> Save all email accounts into HTML file. (vertical)
/sxml <Filename> Save all email accounts into XML file.

Notice: If the filename contains one or more space characters, you must enclose it with quotes ("").

Translating Mail PassView to other languages

Mail PassView allows you to easily translate all dialog-boxes, menus, and strings to other language.
In order to do that, follow the instructions below:
  1. Run Mail PassView with /savelangfile parameter:
    mailpv.exe /savelangfile
    A file named mailpv_lng.ini will be created in the folder of Mail PassView utility.
  2. Open the created language file in Notepad or in any other text editor.
  3. Translate all menus, dialog-boxes, and string entries to the desired language.
  4. After you finish the translation, Run Mail PassView, and all translated strings will be loaded from the language file.
    If you want to run Mail PassView without the translation, simply rename the language file, or move it to another folder.

Download Mail PassView in zip file (mailpv.zip)

Download Mail PassView With Install/Uninstall Support (mailpv_setup.exe)

Mail PassView is also available in other languages. In order to change the language of Mail PassView, download the appropriate language zip file, extract the 'mailpv_lng.ini', and put it in the same folder that you Installed Mail PassView utility.

Language Translated By Version
French MAJ par Alain Laroche 1.36
Galician    
Polish Szymon Ogrodnik 1.36
Swedish Magnus  
Portuguese Rui Morais 1.42
Czech karelmrak 1.42
German Latino 1.42
Italian Fabio Mastroianni 1.42
Slovenian Andrej S.  
Turkish Kemal Seer  
Simplified Chinese Minfy Wang  
Dutch Peter Vroomen  
Spanish Pere Orga  
Russian a-line company 1.37
Japanese Dai@barlog  
Traditional Chinese Minfy Wang  
Hebrew Handelsman Sagy  
Portuguese-Brazil Mark Nascimento  
Hebrew   1.36
Bulgarian Plamen Penev  
Greek Anastasios Monachos  
Korean EcLipSe 1.38
Arabic Mazen Al-Zahrani 1.36
Korean KIM JaeGeun  
Traditional Chinese Eros 1.36
Slovenian Jadran Rudec  
Taiwanese Eros 1.40
Romanian Cristian Stefan 1.36
Lithuanian MucTuK 1.36
French PasswordOne 1.42
Arabic ãÇÌÏ ÇáÍÓíä Magid Hussein 1.40
Croatian malimaks 1.40
Ukrainian Sergiy Sekela 1.42
French Jean-Michel Gillion 1.42