How to backup email accounts in Microsoft Outlook 2003?
This question was bugging me like hell when I was taking backup of my outlook data today.
I took backup of all the folders, rules but I could not find any option to take backup of email accounts.
I googled for quite some time but could not find anything…
I knew there was a registry key for this but it wasn’t so easy to find….
after digging the net / google for more than 30 minutes, I finally found the way to do it…
Just locate the following key in registry (start - run - regedit):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook
Then right click on the key, outlook and select option, Export…save it anywhere you want…
and run it while restoring your outlook.
This will restore your old outlook profile with all email accounts and rules.
But, you will have to enter passwords for the accounts again. It does not store the user passwords.
I hope this helps people like me..who are lazy to create the email accounts again… 
01-Dec-2006 at 6:03 pm
Both the options - exporting / importing the registry key “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook” and the “Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizardâ€Â? in the “Microsoft Office Toolsâ€Â? exports the account settings but without the passwords. You will have to type them again
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07-Nov-2006 at 12:00 am
Please add 1 and 1??? Anyway, thanks for postion this assistance. We’re swapping one computer to another and this worked very well. BTW Add the part that the final reg were about 17 lines down that contained the email accounts (what I was looking for) thanks!!
27-Oct-2006 at 1:57 pm
Thnax this is very usefull info
19-Sep-2006 at 2:14 pm
Apparently, there’s a feature in Microsoft Office 2003 to import/export settings like accounts.
“Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard” in the “Microsoft Office Tools”.
This will save all the mail accounts as well as other settings in Office.
But if you want to use this feature to transfer your settings and accounts to a new computer, I think it will do the trick.
Unfortunately, I didn’t test it yet (will do soon).
Hope it helps.
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07-Aug-2006 at 7:53 pm
use the import/export feature of outlook
17-Jul-2006 at 10:05 pm
I want to take a email backup of my emails?
How do I do this?
04-May-2006 at 10:28 pm
kiddo, do you even know what is written in the post? do you know that you CANNOT export emil account settings, rules in outlook? Get your facts straight and then reply with your childish comments…
,pst file will take backup of the mail data not email accounts…
04-May-2006 at 4:52 pm
Did any of this make sense to you freaks? What about using the export feature in outlook to backup emails? Or saving the .pst file, guess we need to google more
11-Mar-2006 at 10:03 am
Ok, confusion in the posts…2 posts hve been mixed up!