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Passwords to email accounts (POP3/SMTP/IMAP) or FTP connections can be recovered if saved in the mail/FTP client. Perform these steps:

 

•Run your email or FTP client

•Open account/connection properties in the client

•Take a note of the current server address (like mail.mydomain.com, pop3.mydomain.com, ftp.mydomain.com etc.)

•In PSPR, select POP3, IMAP, SMTP or FTP emulation; the port number will be automatically updated in Server port field, but you may have to change it manually if it is different from the default

•In the Server address field, put the proper server address (without prefix) as seen in the client

•Press Start

•Send/receive mail in the client, or connect to the FTP server

•Go back to PSPR and check for the login and password

 

This method works for unsecured authentication only. In other cases (e.g. if CRAM-MD5, NTLM or aother authentication is used) the password is not passed to the server, and cannot be captured.