Plesk: listing all the mailbox account info (username/password)

Here’s a useful command when you’re dealing with Plesk very often. This lists all the account names and their passwords for all the mailboxes in your Plesk Controlpanel.

While you could/should argue it’s unsafe of Plesk to store them in plain text like that, it sure comes in handy when troubleshooting. Note that on modern Plesk versions passwords may be stored hashed (an E flag, or hashing enabled under Security Policy), in which case you’ll see an undecryptable hash instead of the plaintext below.

# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mail_auth_view

Authentication database contents:

+-–-–-–-–-–-–-–-–+-—-+-–-–-–-–-–-—-+

| address |flags| password |

+-–-–-–-–-–-–-–-–+-—-+-–-–-–-–-–-—-+

| [email protected] | | SomethingRandom |

…

So keep that /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/mail_auth_view command in mind!