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ThunderbirdPassDecryptor is the FREE tool to instantly recover the
stored mail account password by
Thunderbird. Thunderbird is a free,
open-source, cross-platform application for managing email and news
feeds. Like other email clients, it also stores the mail account
passwords on the local system for subsequent logins so that user
don't have to type the password everytime.
Thunderbird uses it's own private mechanism with powerful encryption
algorithm to store the account details securely in its
account database file. |
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ThunderbirdPassDecryptor helps in
instantly recovering such stored mail account passwords and get the
complete account access details. You can also use it to recover the
Thunderbird account passwords from other system which is not alive
or running on completely different platform.
ThunderbirdPassDecryptor is a standalone portable application which
does not require any installation and can be run from anywhere. It
works on wide platforms starting from Windows XP to latest operating
system, Windows 7. |
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| Here are the highlights of top features of ThunderbirdPassDecryptor which
makes it stand apart from other similar tools including commercial ones. |
- Instantly decrypt and recover the stored encrypted mail
account passwords from 'Thunderbird Password Store'
- Supports recovery of passwords from local system as well
as remote system. User can specify Thunderbird profile location from the remote system to recover
the passwords.
- It can recover passwords from 'Thunderbird Password Store' even when it is
protected with master password. In such case user have to enter the correct master
password to successfully decrypt the mail account passwords.
- Automatically discovers Thunderbird default profile location based on installed
version of Thunderbird.
- Passwords are not shown by default for security reasons as it is
sensitive data. However user can toggle this behavior using 'Show
Password' button.
- On successful recovery operation, username, password along with a
corresponding login website is displayed.
- Sort feature to arrange the displayed password list by username,
password or mail server which makes it easy to search through hundreds of
entries.
- User can save the recovered Thunderbird mail account password list to HTML file for
transferring to other system or for future use.
- Easy and faster to use with its enhanced user friendly
interface.
- Does not require any installation as it is standalone portable tool
and can be run directly on any system.
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Thunderbird uses same mechanism as Firefox (as explained in
FirePasswordViewer) to store its email account passwords
securely. The passwords are stored in the file called 'signons.sqlite' at its profile location. Default
profile location for different platforms is as follows,
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[Windows XP]
C:\Documents and
Settings\<user_name>\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_name>.default
[Windows Vista &
Windows 7]
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<random_name>.default |
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| The password file is stored in SQLite database format as in the case
of Firefox. It contains many tables pertaining to various account
configuration of Thunderbird, but the account password details are
stored in 'moz_logins' table as shown in the screenshot below (using the
SQLite Database Browser Tool) |
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| Here are more details about important fields of 'moz_logins' table |
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table - moz_logins
- id - index of each entry
- hostname - Mail Server URL
- encryptedUsername - encrypted username
- encryptedPassword - encrypted password
- guid - unique GUID for each entry
- encType - value 1 indicates encrypted
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Now once the encrypted username and password values are extracted from
above database file, ThunderbirdPassDecryptor decrypts them
instantly using base64 decoding followed by 3DES algorithm.
Information required to decrypt these contents are stored in key3.db file including the master
password details. If the master password is set, then you must
provide the master password for successful decryption. If you have
forgotten the master password, then you can use
Firemaster tool to
recover the master password.
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ThunderbirdPassDecryptor is the standalone
application and it does not require any installation. You can run it
directly after copying on to the system.
Here are the brief usage details.
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- On launch, ThunderbirdPassDecryptor automatically
populates the Thunderbird's default profile location.
- If you have set the master password for your Thunderbird, then you need to
enter the same in the 'master password box'.
- Once the profile location is specified, you can click on 'Start
Recovery' button and ThunderbirdPassDecryptor will instantly recover all
passwords from 'Thunderbird Password Store'.
- By default passwords are not shown for security reasons as it is
sensitive data. However you can click on 'Show Password' button to view
these passwords.
- Finally you can save all recovered mail account password list to HTML file by
clicking on 'Save as HTML' button.
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| You can also use ThunderbirdPassDecryptor to recover
passwords from different system either Windows or Linux. In that case you can copy
Thunderbird
profile data from remote system to local machine and then specify that
path in the profile location field for recovering such passwords. |
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| Here are the screenshots which gives glance of
ThunderbirdPassDecryptor in action. |
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| Screenshot 1: ThunderbirdPassDecryptor showing the recovered
passwords from Thunderbird password store. Note that passwords are hidden by
default for security reason. |
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| Screenshot 2: Showing the hidden passwords recovered by
ThunderbirdPassDecryptor on clicking 'Show Password' button. |
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| Screenshot 3: Recovered Firefox password list stored in HTML
format by ThunderbirdPassDecryptor |
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ThunderbirdPassDecryptor is
successfully tested with Thunderbird version 3.1.1 and
may work with older versions too as long as they use similar
password storage mechanism.
If you encounter any problem with ThunderbirdPassDecryptor with any version
of Thunderbird, then please contact the author
with details about your Thunderbird version and any other
information which will
help in fixing the problem.
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| First public release of ThunderbirdPassDecryptor. |
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