Advanced Mailbox Password Recovery (AMBPR)

Advanced Mailbox Password Recovery (or simply AMBPR) is a program to login and password information (stored locally) for most popular email clients: Microsoft Internet Mail And News, Eudora, TheBat!, Netscape Navigator/Communicator Mail, Pegasus mail, Calypso mail, FoxMail, Phoenix Mail, IncrediMail, @nyMail, QuickMail Pro, MailThem and MailThem Pro, Opera mail, Kaufman Mail Warrior, Becky! Internet Mail. Also includes POP3 and IMAP server emulator that allows to get POP3/IMAP password from any email client. Passwords are recovered instanly, multilingual ones are supported.

Requirements :
•Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003
•about one megabyte of free space on hard disk

The program menu is located at the left of the main screen, just like in Microsoft Outlook: contains Recovery (automatic or manual, as well as mail server emulator: also automatic and manual), Options, Help and Exit button (to switch to appropriate pages).

Most interface elements (such as buttons, raws in the “list view” windows etc) have pop-up “tooltips” which gives more details about them – e.g. what action will be performed when pressing the button. “List view” elements also have context-sensitive menus appearing on right button click.

The program also supports keyboard hotkeys. Use CTRL- to select the high-level menu item, and ALT- to switch to low-level item under it:

CTRL-1: Recovery

ALT-1: Search for email clients
ALT-2: Automatic passwords recovery
ALT-3: Manual passwords recovery

ALT-4: Mail server emulator (auto mode)

ALT-5: Mail server emulator (manual mode)

CTRL-2: Options
ALT-1: Register the program
ALT-2: General options
CTRL-3: Help
ALT-1: Versions and compatibility
ALT-2: About
ALT-3: Help
CTRL-4: Exit
ALT-1: Minimize to tray
ALT-2: Exit to Windows

Scans your computer (hard disk and Registry) for supported email clients. The full list of clients that are supported by the current version is available on Help page. For every email client found, the program shows its full name, version and (sometimes) sender’s email, name and organization. You can hightlight the item you’re interested in and press the right mouse button for context menu to get more information about the given client, save/print/copy it, or just refresh the list of the clients.

Tries to recover all kind of passwords for all email clients found on your system. The program shows email client name, password type (POP3, SMTP, IMAP, account etc), mail server address (if available), login and password. Context menu (on right click) is available in that window, too.

To be used only when/if requested by our customer support department. Generally, you have to select (from drop-down box) the email client you need to get passwords for; enter the encrypted text (or browse for appropriate file); and press Decrypt.

If you have an email client that is not supported “directly” by the AMBPR, you can try the different approach: Mail server emulator.

In the best scenario, all you have to do is just press Connect button (the program emulates both POP3 and IMAP4 servers simultaneously). Now start your email client (if it was already running, you may need to restart it), and send/receive your mail there (actually, no mail will be received, because the client will connect to AMBPR instead of real mail server). Go back to AMBPR, and login and password (for POP3 or IMAP account) should be there.

There are some limitations, though. First, AMBPR should know what mail servers you connect to. It tries to retrieve the list automatically, but for some clients it may still fail to do that. So if your server is not in the list, press Add server to add it (you will be able to remove it when not needed anymore). Second, you can add servers by either name or IP address, but in the second case, emulation will work properly only if IP can be resolved to the name.

Please also note that this method works for regular authentication only; in other cases (e.g. if MD5 APOP authentication is being used) the password is not passed to the server at all, and so it cannot be captured.

By default, AMBPR uses port 110 for POP3 and port 143 for IMAP4; if your email clients has another port settings, you have to change them in AMBPR, respectively (in Options).

We'd recommend you to try Mail server emulator (auto mode) first – and only if it fails, use the "standard" one (as described in this topic). Here are the steps to perform:

• Select POP3 or IMAP emulation
• Click Connect button in AMBPR
• Run your email client
• Open account properties in the client
• Remember current incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) server address
• Replace it with localhost or 127.0.0.1
• Save account properties
• Connect to the Internet (not required for some clients)
• Receive mail (in the client) for your account
• Go back to AMBPR and look at POP3 user/password there

Now go back to AMBPR and look at POP3 or IMAP user/password there. This method works for regular authentication only; in other cases (e.g. if MD5 APOP authentication is being used) the password is not passed to the server at all, and so it cannot be captured.

Unlike the automatic server emulator described above, this (manual) one works for only POP3 or IMAP4 at a time (according to the option selected), so if you’re not sure, try both of them separately.

Register the program: when/if you have purchased the program, enter your registration code into the input box, and press the Register button.

General options:

Language: select (from drop-down box) an appropriate language to be used for for program user interface (menus, messages etc); press Refresh button to update (after changing your selection).

Print entire windows instead of text: when enabled, AEBPR will print the contents of the current window (where the Print button exists) instead of text.

Warn under Windows NT/2000: not implemented (yet), reserved for future use.

Check for installed e-mail clients at startup: force AMBPR to search (on startup) your computer for [properly] installed email clients the program can recover the passwords for.

POP3 server port and IMAP server port: set port numbers for your email server; defaults are 110 and 143, respectively.

Versions and compatibility: contains information of supported email clients, and particular versions AMBPR has been tested on.

About: copyright information, and links to program home page in the Internet.

Help: online help (the one you’re reading now)

Minimize to tray: minimizes program to the tray on Windows toolbar (near the system clock). To restore the program to normal state, just double-click on its icon (which looks like an envelope) in the tray.

Exit to Windows: closes current session.


Home page URL : http://www.elcomsoft.com/ambpr.html