Logging

Logging
Eudora Tip #142/24-Jul-2002

Many of my clients have Eudora save their password so they never need it. Then suddenly one day they need that password for some reason and they just can’t recall what it is. Eudora knows it, but where can we find it.

One way is to look at the Log — after all, every time you check mail Eudora sends that information to the server.

Here’s a look at the log of a recent session with my email. I’ve changed my real password to abcdef:

Sat Jul 20 09:30:43 2002
71697104 32:8.52.28 Rcvd: "+OK <26298.1027114241
@vpop1.superb.net>\r\n"
71697104 32:0.0.1 Sent: "CAPA\r\n"
71697104 32:0.0.15 Rcvd: "-ERR authorization first\r\n"
71697104 32:0.0.16 Sent: "USER miraz%firstbite.co.nz\r\n"
71697104 32:0.0.32 Rcvd: "+OK \r\n"
71697104 32:0.0.32 Sent: "PASS abcdef\r\n"
71697104 32:0.0.47 Rcvd: "+OK \r\n"
71697104 32:0.0.49 Sent: "STAT\r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.3 Rcvd: "+OK 2 1147175\r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.6 Sent: "LIST\r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.20 Rcvd: "+OK \r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.41 Rcvd: "1 10214\r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.41 Rcvd: "2 67492\r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.41 Rcvd: ".\r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.41 Sent: "UIDL\r\n"
71697104 32:0.1.55 Rcvd: "+OK \r\n"
71697104 32:0.2.51 Rcvd:
"1 1025408397.15043.umail3.dca1.superb.net,S=10150\r\n"
71697104 32:0.2.52 Rcvd:
"2 1026773391.29511.umail3.dca1.superb.net,S=67411\r\n"
71697104 32:0.2.52 Rcvd: ".\r\n"
71697104 2:0.2.52 mail.firstbite.co.nz 110 (2)

This tells me that on Sat, July 20 at 9.30 am Eudora contacted my mail server at Superb.net which immediately asked for authorisation. Eudora told it I’m miraz@firstbite.co.nz and the server said that was OK but what’s my password? Eudora replied with abcdef (at about line 7 above) and the sever then went on to detail two messages waiting for me.

Once that transaction was over Eudora went on to actually download those two messages.

You’ll find the Log in the same folder as your Eudora Settings file. Try Sherlock if you don’t know where that is. You can open the Log with a text editor such as SimpleText or TextEdit or you could use a program like AppleWorks or MS Word.

Chances are, though, that you won’t find information like that above — it’s likely to be much briefer. First you need to change some settings for the Log.