Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > David H. Durgee wrote: > >> I believe you are correct. The problem is that I have forgotten the >> pass phrase. I must have had Password Manager memorize it, as I can >> still send encrypted messages. Unfortunately I am being prompted for >> the pass phrase when I need to receive an encrypted message even though >> I don't have to enter it to send one. >> >> I don't know how the Password Manager has stored the pass phrase. If I >> did I should be able to copy/paste from the manager into the prompt and >> then get it saved properly. >> >> Any idea how it is saved? > > Assuming PM has saved it -- and that's a big "if" -- you should be able > to read it from the Password Manager > <chrome://passwordmgr/content/passwordManager.xul>. > > Of course, there will be dozens or even hundreds of listings, depending > on how much you've used the PM. But you can shorten the list by entering > a keyword in the search window. For example, if I enter "gmail," I get > only ten hits, of which nine are cases where I've used my gmail address > as a username and the tenth one is my gmail mailbox password. Then you > just right-click the listing and choose "copy password" (or you can > click the "Show Passwords" button at lower right and write down what you > see on a Post-It®). > > The key here will be to identify some useful keyword that will limit the > number of hits. Otherwise you'll be there all day scrolling through the > hits. >
That was exactly what I was hoping someone could tell me, what the Enigmail plug-in would have keyed its pass phrase with. Then when I get the prompt again I will copy/paste it from PM. I take it the keyword cannot be part of the pass phrase itself, but must be part of the username or site. The funny thing is now I am starting to see things working without prompting me for the pass phrase. Strange. So perhaps this was a glitch of some sort that caused me to be prompted instead of automated. Dave _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
