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:

1. Open Outlook Express
2. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
3. On the Mail tab, choose the mail account that you want to export. Mine is called Pop.secureserver.net.
4. Then click Export from the right side menu
5. In the Save In box, the file name will be filled in for you. It usually gets saved to My Documents.
6. Then click Save
7. Copy this file to your backup disk
8. Repeat these steps for each mail account that you want to export.

1. Insert your backup disk
2. Open Outlook Express
3. On the Tools menu, click Accounts
4. Choose the Mail tab
5. Then click on Import and locate the file (on your backup disc)
6. Click on your file. That’s it. Now you can check your email.

Notes:

• 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.
• 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.