                               PopCrack  v1.0

                      U of MN Popmail Password Cracker
                      Copyright (c) 1996 Ethan Galstad
                             All rights reserved.
                  Commercial use without license prohibited.



CONTENTS
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o  DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION
o  LICENSING INFORMATION
o  DISCLAIMER
o  WHAT POPCRACK DOES
o  HOW TO RUN POPCRACK



DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION
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The freeware version of PopCrack may be freely distributed, as long
as all the supporting documentation and files are copied along with it.
The registered version of PopCrack may NOT be distributed and may only
be used on the machine(s) it is registered for.  Once you register your 
version of PopCrack ($3), you will receive the latest registered version 
of PopCrack along with my other password recovery software and utilities.  
Send checks, money orders, bug reports, suggestions, comments, flames, 
etc. to:

        Ethan Galstad
        6971 Balsam Rd.
        Eau Claire, WI 54701



LICENSING INFORMATION
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Commercial use of the freeware or registered version PopCrack requires 
a license which is available for a small fee.  Contact me at the address 
above for further information about obtaining a license for PopCrack.



DISCLAIMER
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The author of PopCrack hereby expressly disclaims all warranties, 
expressed or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability 
or fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to the PopCrack
software and documentation.  The author also disclaims any liability for
any damages or loss of any type that any user of said software may incur.
This includes, but is not limited to, financial, electrical, magnetic, 
or mechanical damages or losses.  All software and documentation is
provided "as is" and is to be used at your own risk.



WHAT POPCRACK DOES
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PopCrack will recover lost email passwords that are used by the University 
of Minnesota's POPMAIL program.  Forgetting one's email password, especially 
when it's saved on disk, seems to be a common problem for many people, so I 
decided to help out by writing this password recovery utility.



HOW TO RUN POPCRACK
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In order to recover a lost or forgotten POPMAIL email password, simply type
the following on the DOS command line:

   POPCRACK <config_file>

Replace the <config_file> parameter with the name of the POPMAIL configuration
file.  This file is called 'POPMAIL.INI' and usually resides in your \WINDOWS
directory or \POPMAIL directory.

POPCRACK will read the POPMAIL configuration file and print the email username,
mail server, and password that are used when fetching email.



*** Notes ***

(a) POPCRACK has only been tested with version 1.06 of POPMAIL, so if
    you find a version that it doesn't work with, let me know.


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