Hi, I just recently learned (and was horrified) that this K-9 mail app I have been using for the last year stores my email passwords / usernames etc in its preferences_storage database which is located in the /data/data/com.fsck.k9 folder. Simply copy file to computer, and use sqlite database browser <http://sqlitebrowser.org/> to open the file. Under "browse data" tab, select "preferences storage" dropdown list, anything on the left that ends in .transporturi means the data on the right is a password. Copy and paste that into an base64 decoder <https://www.base64decode.org/> and you will see your password plain as day....
There is no 'master password' option yet for k-9 mail. As you can see from these posts: https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=1243 https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/detail?id=1192 you can tell that the k-9 project has no interest whatsoever in securing our email passwords. So, I uninstalled today and now am trying out r2mail2 app <https://r2mail2.com/>. It uses a master password, encrypts your stored passwords AND your email messages. Also you can use it to send / receive encrypted email with Full S/MIME and PGP Plain and PGP MIME support. The only thin I DON'T like about r2mail2 is it isn't open source like k-9. However, I refuse to have my passwords sit in plain sight on my phone for one minute longer. On Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 3:05:10 AM UTC-7, plafe wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm concerned about the way K-9 Mail stores passwords of email > accounts. Are passwords currently stored as clear text so if someone > for example steals my phone he/she is able to retrieve my passwords? > > Is there any way to prevent that? Is it possible to save passwords > behind master password? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
