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 How to Backup Your Email Account
Settings in Outlook Express
By Mitz
Here's a great and simple tip to
backup your email account settings so you do not have to manually set it up
every time you format or get a new computer. This will save you from having to
find your settings if something goes wrong. I personally do not like
manually setting up an email account because it is just so easy to export
the settings and then import them later.
How to export your email account settings
from Outlook Express: |
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Open Outlook Express
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On the Tools menu,
click Accounts.
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On the Mail tab, choose
the mail account that you want to export. Mine is called
Pop.secureserver.net.
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Then click Export
from the right side menu
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In the Save In box, the
file name will be filled in for you. It usually gets saved to My Documents.
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Then click Save
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Copy this file
to your backup disk
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Repeat these steps for each mail account that you want to
export.
How to import your email account settings into
Outlook or Windows Mail:
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Insert your backup disk
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Open Outlook Express
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On the Tools menu,
click Accounts
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Choose the Mail tab
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Then click on Import and locate the file (on
your backup disc)
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Click on your file. That's it. Now you can check
your email.
Notes:
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You can export an email account
setting in Outlook Express and import it to Windows Mail in Windows Vista.
However you might have to copy the file onto the computer that you want to
import the account settings to.
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We all know how important it is
to backup certain files and backing these email account settings up just saves
so much time and hassle.
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