I did not refer to the keychain file. I doubt that the token includes
your password in cleartext.
Mac OS includes a service app called „Keychain“ to manage passwords
(see [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keychain_(software))) . It is
located in a subfolder of the app folder.
In this app the system stores all passwords used by MM as well. Search
for the name of the mailserver used by hotmail and invoke the details of
a stored item with CMD-i (for information).
Regards,
Thomas
On 30 Aug 2020, at 10:55, Thomas Bartlett via mailmate wrote:
Thank you. I found a login keychain file labelled
"com.apple.Exchange.oath-refresh-token." Opening it, I opted to view
the password. It was a ten digit string consisting of mostly random
alpha-numeric and punctuation symbols. Looks plausible. So I tried
inserting it in the Skype login both on MacBook and on iPhone Spark
app, but to no avail. I’m getting extremely frustrated trying to do
it this way. I think there must be some other factor that’s getting
in the way. Has Skype simply dropped accessing Hotmail?
Thanks for your tip. In the past I’ve been too unfamiliar with using
the keychain files. But maybe it’s not too late to learn some of it.
Thomas
On Aug 30, 2020, at 12:18 AM, Thomas Eckhold <tho...@eckhold.eu>
wrote:
Passwords should be stored in the keychain of MAC OS not in MM
itself. Did you take a look there? Search for the name of the
provider not MM.
Kind regards
Thomas
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
Am 30.08.2020 um 08:17 schrieb Thomas Bartlett via mailmate
<mailmate@lists.freron.com>:
I use four email clients in my MacBook Pro: MailMate, Apple Mail,
MS Outlook, and Spark. In the first three I have a Hotmail account
that functions properly. In Spark, it used to run properly but is
now saying I need to login again. But I don’t have a record of the
password and the Spark process apparently does not allow for
resetting a lost password.
So I though I’d try copying the Hotmail password from one of the
three other clients in which the Hotmail account is functioning
properly. In MS Outlook, for my six email accounts, the two Gmail
accounts do not show a password, but in settings for the other four
non-Gmail accounts, three show the current password, but the Hotmail
settings show no password; the box is simply blank, although the
account is functioning.
So, in MailMate, is there some way I can view and copy the current
password of an active and functioning account, so that I can copy it
to the Spark login?
Thanks in advance to anyone who troubles to contribute to solving
this not very sophisticated problem.
Thomas
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