Outlook account settings

[fernando.tasso]

Hi!

I need to find documentation on how to write an application to setup a
new email account in Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003. Where Outlook
store those account settings (email, password, pop server, smtp
server)? How is the file layout? I couldn't find a paper explaining
how/where email accounts can be handled and stored.

Fernando Tasso
Intersix Technologies

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Microsoft uses text files with a .prf extension and a highly structured format to provide information to OUtlook that enables Outlook to create or modify a mail profile and its mail accounts. You can create such .prf files with the Custom Installation Wizard or Custom Maintenance Wizard tools in the Office Resource Kit. For more details, including a variety of .prf deployment methods, read the excellent white paper "Configuring Outlook Profiles by Using a PRF File" at http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?assetid=HA011403051033&QueryID=pHm7c_60I&respos=3

The page at http://www.slipstick.com/exs/olroam.htm includes information on other profile tools and resources.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers