password for evolution mail

[Konstantin Svist]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 12:43 -0700, rfjones wrote:
>   
>> have evolution running on fc7, saved mail password.
>> I want to logon to my qwest mail acct from another machine, and I cant
>> find my password
>> where is the mail password for evolution stored?
>>     
>
> ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution
>
> It's encrypted.  You can't tell what the password is, just by looking at
> the file, but you ought to be able to copy it to another box and use it,
> as-is.
>   

If that's the case, you can still recover your POP3 password using a 
packet sniffer (check manpage for tcpdump - I think you want tcpdump -A)
This is email client-agnostic