Internet account settings Outlook Express

This tutorial will guide you through the process of backing up these important settings. Please select an option below:

* Backing up your internet account settings.
* Restoring your internet account settings.

Backing up your internet account settings

The first step is to open up Outlook Express.

Click on tools and then select accounts from the pull down menu.

you will see your internet account on the left hand side, in our example we are going to back up the pop.test.com account.

Select (single left click) your internet account and then click the Export button

Navigate to where you want to save the settings, enter a name in the file name box (or leave it as it is) and then click the Save button.

Repeat this process to backup as many accounts as required, when you have finished backing up simply click the close button

* Restoring your internet account settings

Outlook express exports internet account files with the file extension (suffix) .iaf.

First of all open up the Outlook Express program into which you want to import your account settings.

Next, click on tools and then select accounts from the pull down menu.

Click on the Import button and you will be presented with the Import Internet Account dialogue box.

Navigate to the folder where you have saved your exported files and select (left click on) the account you wish to import (in this example pop.test.com.iaf), then simply click the Open button.

Once it has been imported you should see it in the Internet accounts dialogue box.

When you have finished importing accounts simply click the Close button and your accounts should be ready to use.