how do u get passwords off email?

[dblue]

i bought my PC off a co worker and he had a password on his old email. i want to use the email. but i dont know how to get by his old password off the pc.

heres what the pass looks like


i cant ask the old owner, because i dont work with him any more

[Prot]

The password is on his email account, not the email program. You will need to somehow change the settings to reflect your email account.
If this box comes up when you start the email client, and closes when you hit cancel, you may have to reinstall it.

[dblue]

The password is on his email account, not the email program. You will need to somehow change the settings to reflect your email account.
If this box comes up when you start the email client, and closes when you hit cancel, you may have to reinstall it.

will i need a disc to reinstall, or is it a website install?

[smearbrick1]

Do you know much about computers?

First of all, I think a little information regarding the email client involved would not be out of the question. Second, if you are using something like Outlook Express or the like, simply delete the old email profile and create a new one for yourself.

You cannot get your email through your friends email settings. Unless, of course, you and your friend are the same person, under the same username, live in parallel universes, etc.

[Supreme2k]

You can use Outlook express for your own email, or mozilla also has a free email client.

I'm not sure what you're doing, but it has to fall in one of these categories:

1. You do not have email, but want to use his.
You cannot (and should not) use someone else's email account. If you can connect to the Internet, your ISP has already given you email to go with it.

2. You simply want to get into his email
No-no. Shame on you.

3. You believe that you need the password to set up an account
Not true. As it has been said, simply delete the old account and set up your own. Instructions are in the help file, if the wizard is not enough.

[rallynavvie]

I guess what I'm not getting here is why you're just realizing this now and yet you don't work with the person you bought it from anymore. The whole thing sounds kinda fishy to me.

My advice on this would be to tell you to delete his profile from whatever email application that is and use your own email account settings in there instead. You can use the email application he used on that computer but you probably didn't buy his email account along with the computer. Email accounts are like bank accounts, they're remotely managed by ISP much like a bank account is managed by a bank. The account information for the email is not attached to the computer but rather the person, just like a bank account isn't tied to an ATM but the person whose account it is.

And if you already know all this then what you're doing is probably wrong.