Windows 10: How do I access mail app passwords?

I need to recover a gmail password, and its saved in the mail app cache. Is there a way to access that? I never made a secondary email, so I cant recover through google. Its on my iphone too, but same problem, cant access mail passwords.

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Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

What is gMail's Mail App Password

I have a number of gMail accounts. When I look at my security settings in Google. I see 3 entries for each account..

Mail App Password
Thunderbird (which I'm moving away from)
Mailbird (which I'm moving to)

I'm curious about the first one, Mail App Password. It seems to have been created approx 2 years ago. But I cannot think what it could be for? As far as I know, I don't need Mail App Password unless it is somehow associated with the Thunderbird and Mailbird emails. If I delete it. Will my Thunderbird/Mailbird programs still have full access to my gMail Accounts. Any light shed on this would be helpful.

I also have 2 step authentication on for all accounts. I assumed this was for verifying me as a user. But I'm wondering if Thunderbird/Mailbird need some settings to cope with logging on with 2 step authentication?

My basic problem is I cannot see any differences in google for all of these accounts. But some of my Mailbird accounts won't send mail. So maybe there is a setting in Mailbird, which I've overlooked, for why this is happening?

 

What is gMail's Mail App Password

Hi stub. See if this will help you understand app specific passwords Sign in using App Passwords - Google Account Help