This guide will show you how to retrieve Outlook email password for POP3 or IMAP account. If you have forgotten the password of your Exchange Microsoft account (probably an account on outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com or even skype.com), you can't really recover that password, but it's easy to reset your password to the new one.

1. How to Recover | Reset | Change Email
Passwords in MS Outlook
Forgot Outlook Email
Password
What to do if you forgot your email password?
This tutorial will show you how to recover | reset | change the password for the email account that is configured in the
MS Outlook desktop client in Windows 10.

2. 1. Recover and view email passwords in Outlook client
2. Reset Microsoft Exchange account password online
3. Change and update email password in Outlook client
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3. What types of e-mail accounts does your Outlook profile have?
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You can follow the steps below to see the types of email accounts in Outlook client.
• On the menu, select File, then Account Settings and Account Settings.
• On the Email tab, the Type column lists the type of account for each entry.

4. How to Recover Password for POP3
or IMAP Account in MS Outlook
You can watch the following video and follow the detailed
steps to recover password for POP3 or IMAP account.
https://youtu.be/GymjlDDQSns

5. Video Tutorial of Find and View Email Password
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With iSumsoft Outlook Email Password
Recovery program, you can gain access
to any passwords they have stored in
the Outlook program in seconds.
This software works with all versions of
Outlook, including Outlook 2019 | 2016 |
2013 | 2010 | 2007 | 2003.
It supports for POP3, IMAP, SMTP and
HTTP accounts configured in Microsoft
Outlook app.

6. Steps to Find and Recover Email Password in Outlook Client
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Step 1: Download the Outlook Email Password Refixer program and install it on your computer.
Step 2: After you’ve completed the
download, launch the software.
It will instantly display the password
for email accounts. You can also click
the Recover button to scan all types
of email account information (such as
email address, password, mail
server) you have configured in MS
Outlook.

7. Step 3: Export saved passwords.
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You can right-click on your email password to copy it or click the Save button to save all your email
accounts and their passwords in a Notepad file for backup purpose.

8. How to Reset Password for
Microsoft Exchange Account
If you have an Exchange account, the email password will
not appear. If you forgot the password for Microsoft
Exchange Account, you need to reset it online.

9. Step 1: Click reset it now link in the Outlook sign-in screen.
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10. Step 2: In the Recover your account box and type the email address or
phone number that needs a password reset. Then select Next.
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Step 3: Choose one of the alternate contact email addresses or
phone numbers on this account. Then select Next.

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Step 4: Type the missing info to verify that it’s really your email
address or phone number. Next, select the Get code.

12. Step 5: Type the security code into Verify your identity, then select Next.
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Step 6: Reset the password for your
Outlook account by typing it into New
password.
Then confirm it by typing it again into the
Reenter password box, then select Next.
You have changed the outlook account
password.

13. How to Change Email Password in
Outlook Client
If you have changed your password through an email
provider or a web-based email service, you will need to
update the password stored in the email client.

14. Step 1: Open the Outlook app. Click the File menu.
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Step 2: On that menu, click Account
Settings and then Account Settings.
This will open the Account Settings
dialog. Select the Email tab and double-
click the email account whose password
you want to change.

15. Step 3: Under the login information section, you will see your
username and password.
Simply type the new email password on the password box and click Next to save your changes.
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16. That’s it!
You have now successfully
changed your Outlook email
password.
• How to Change Password in Outlook 2016
• How to See Saved Passwords in MS Outlook 2016
See Also