clawspeek - mimimalistic Claws Mail password recovery
clawspeek <obfuscated_password>
clawspeek receives an obfuscated password argument (as found in Claws Mail's accountrc file) and outputs it and the default unobfuscated equivalent on the standard output.
The 'default unobfuscated equivalent' means that only Claws Mail default obfuscation key is used. In the unlikely case that your software distributor had changed such key this utility won't work for you, sorry.
Not required. A single argument is mandatory.
Some shells (bash(1) for example) use ‘!’ as history expansion character. That character is common in obfuscated password, so you must escape if from shell. Enclosing the obfuscated password in single quotes is one simple way.
Let's say you have an account named "Test" in Claws Mail, and want to recover the receiving password.
- Open your ~/.claws-mail/accountrc with an editor or pager
- Search for a line with that account name: ‘account_name=Test’
- Search below for the first line starting with ‘password=’, it reads: ‘password=!Wffj/kf9h1M=’
Then issue the command (notice the single quotes):
$ claswpeek '!Wffj/kf9h1M='
!Wffj/kf9h1M= -> passw0rdYou're done, your password was “passw0rd”.
In case of the sending password, after locating the account name, look for the first line starting with ‘smtp_password=’ instead.
- 0
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On success.
- -1
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If no arguments were supplied.
- Only recovers one password per run.
- Only default obfuscation key is supported.
- Only Claws Mail versions below 3.14.0 are fully supported. Limited support for greater versions: when not using the new master password mechanism, see README for details.
One user has mentioned problems with output which may be related to passwords encoded with some invalid UTF-8 character. No further cooperation other than this was given, so if you have similar problems open an issue.
Since decryption code is the same as Claws Mail itself, this bug applies: http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2428
Please, use GitHub issues list for bug reporting: https://github.com/mones/clawspeek/issues
claws-mail(1), bash(1).