I need to recover an email account password from an IAF file

[gmv...@hotmail.com]

Can someone tell me how to freely recover
an old mail account password I lost when changing machines
it was in the form of an IAF extension all the
account information but it is encrypted
and I need that same password to get access to other
things besides email which works A-OK ??

I might go to my ISP but because it is a gift
it resides under another persons data.
I have all I need on my own machine
WHICH I OWN and ADMINISTER but
cant for the life of me recover a stupid password
which is my own. ??

The IAF extension is an exported account.
All the data is there but it cant be read.

Also is there a way to not encrypt passwords
since I am the only user of this machine ??

Win VIsta Premium OEM version SP2.

Thanks for any realistic answers.
geoff

[Bruce Chambers]

Contact the maker of whatever email client application you used to
create that encrypted *.IAF file for assistance.

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[Thomas Wendell]

"Bruce Chambers" <bcha...@cable0ne.n3t> kirjoitti
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Well, as it's an OE "export account data" file extension, this most likely
is a place to ask, as I don't think MS is helping in decrypting such
personal data

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Thomas Wendell
Helsinki, Finland
Translations to/from FI not always accurate

[Bruce Chambers]

Thomas Wendell wrote:
>
>
> Well, as it's an OE "export account data" file extension, this most likely
> is a place to ask, as I don't think MS is helping in decrypting such
> personal data
>
>

Is it an OE file? (Haven't used OE for more than a decade, so I'm not
familiar with its file types.) Anyway, this still wouldn't really be
the best place to ask, since Vista doesn't include Outlook Express; it
has Windows Mail. (Not much of an improvement, but there you are.) The
OP would still be most likely to get the best assistance by asking his
question in a Outlook Express or Win2K/XP newsgroup, where there are
more likely to be people familiar with OE.

[gmv...@hotmail.com]

Ok OK, I get the message.
Ill go try and find a OE group.

Thanks anyways.

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