[nzlug] ihug's "forgotten password" dialog...

Simon Bridge simonbridge at ihug.co.nz
Sat Dec 1 06:18:10 NZDT 2007


On the forgotten password dialog (for webmail) in ihug, I see:
"Hint: This will only be helpful if you check your email using an email
client that has remembered your password, like Microsoft Outlook."

... does this mean that a web page can extract the saved passwords from
MS Outlook (via a browser)?

But isn't that useless anyway: I mean, if I am looking for my password,
surely my client has *not* remembered it for me?

I note that it doesn't work for evolution mail, even when I know the
password has been saved. So the hint is *wrong* anyway.

I'd send this to ihug but all I get these days in #*@! Clippy - I mean -
Smiley.





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