Wow - I like that. I use to use a Filemaker front end. I had the database
set up with a script to create new accounts. I also set it up to link to a
telenet application and log as with the username and password from the
database.
Michael
on 6/19/01 6:42 PM, Chris at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Mail Siphon is a great tool, but it only works for accounts that you have
>> passwords to, since it just POPs into them and lets you manipulate stored
>> messages via POP3 commands. But if you don't know the password of an account
>> and you have some administrative need to empty it of stored messages, Mail
>> Siphon isn't much help.
>
> If you are an admin, and you have access to the web admin pages for SIMS,
> you can get the password for an account. When you click on the account
> name to view it, control-click it, and choose Open Link In New Window (or
> use whatever method you like for opening links in a new window).
>
> Then when the account detail page is frontmost, choose "Show Source", and
> skim down, the password is in clear text in the source of the page (you
> have to look thru it a bit to find the correct form field, but it is
> there).
>
> I use this trick alot when I forget a password and don't want to reset it
> (because resetting it means I have to remember to reset the saved
> passwords in all my email apps).
>
> -chris
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
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