Where Outlook stores account info

[Jack]

Where does out look store e-mail account info. My outlook
seems to have forgotten all of my e-mail accounts and
organization rules. I have all of the e-mails themselves
but not the accounts or rules. I want to recover from a
backup from a couple days ago if possible but I don't know
which files to recover.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

They are contained in the registry but even restoring these keys can lead to
profile corruption. Your better of recreating your mail profile in Control
Panel-> Mail-> button Show Profiles...

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[no one special]

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They are contained in the registry but even restoring these keys can lead to
profile corruption. Your better of recreating your mail profile in Control
Panel-> Mail-> button Show Profiles...

what keys specifically would those be please?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles]

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[mystified]

??? i dont see a blinking thing there. (im at a test
station insted of the one i need customise)
there are a few unrecognisable entries in sub dir's
of /mircosoft outlook internet setting there but that is
all as far as i can tell.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That is correct; it's stored in Binary. It's not supposed to be edited
manually either.

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