When you change your mail program, buy a new computer or reinstall your operating program, it is easy to forget your mail account password. A virtual mail server is a universal tool for recovering mail account passwords if using standard recovery tools is difficult or impossible for one reason or another. Note, a virtual server can only recover logins or passwords that are stored on your computer, in your email program.
The virtual mail server emulates the mail server and intercepts all access to it from your mail program. When you send or receive mail, the mail client, before starting a communication session, establishes a connection to the mail server and forwards your current account information (usually your login and password). This way, the virtual server can intercept and display this information. All(!) email clients using the POP3, IMAP, and SMTP protocols are supported. These include Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Office Outlook, Mozilla, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, Opera Mail, TheBat!, IncrediMail, Eudora, Courier (formerly Calypso), Pegasus mail, Eureka Email, Gnus, Kerio WebMail, Lotus Notes, Mulberry, Pine, etc.
Virtual FTP and NEWS (news reading) servers are in many ways similar to a mail server emulator, they can also communicate with all FTP or NNTP programs. So in most cases, everything said about a virtual mail server applies to them as well.
List of supported news readers: Binbot, Binary News Reaper, Express NewsPictures, Forté Agent, GrabIt, Lotus Notes, Lynx, MesNews, Mozilla, Newsbin Pro, Newsgroup Commander, NewsLeecher, Newsman Pro, Newsreactor, NewsShark, News File Grabber, News Rover, Nomad News, Novell GroupWise, Opera M2, Outlook Express, Usenet Explorer, UltraLeecher, TLNews Newsreader and others.
List of supported FTP clients: AceFTP, ALFTP, BitKinex, BulletProof FTP, Classic FTP, CoreFTP, CrossFTP, CuteFTP, Directory Opus, eFtp Client, Exceed, FAR Manager, FileZilla, FireFTP, FlashFXP, Fling FTP, FTPEditor, FTP Explorer, FTPRush, FTP Voyager, Global Downloader, Glub Tech Secure FTP, Microsoft Internet Explorer, LeechFTP, Mosaic, NcFTP, SFTPPlus, SmartFTP, WebDrive, WinSCP, WISE-FTP, WS FTP and others.
The mail server emulator has a number of limitations:
It cannot recover passwords of email accounts of HTTP-based email clients
Although the virtual server supports many types of authorization (e.g. CRAM-MD5 or NTLMv1), in some cases instant recovery is impossible because the mail client stores and transmits not the password itself, but its modified hash.
Some types of authorization are not supported by Networ Password Recovery Wizard. For example, SPA, which is widely used in Microsoft products, is one of them. However, in most cases, this restriction can be bypassed (more about it below).
Some mail programs do not strictly adhere to the IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. This includes, for example, Outlook Express 4-6. Unfortunately, each version of this popular program introduces innovations that require different approaches to implementing compatibility.
Some mail clients, despite strict RFC regulations, use their own authentication mechanisms that are not supported by the NPRW program.
Each mail client behaves differently when opening a session. Some programs request the maximum security level immediately, regardless of account settings. Some, on the contrary, do not provide the proper level of security, ignore the type and parameters of authentication, transmitting personal data in plain text. There are some that do not provide the stated support for some types of authentication at all.