recover old oe settings

[JillC]

I have recovered all the emails and the address book from the backup drive, but I can't find where the oe settings would be stored - the mail account settings - there were 2 or 3 email accounts and with different reply-to addresses. Also there were quite a few message rules.

Any idea what and where I should be looking?

 

[BadBigBen]

Never tried it, since I only use OE for news:

Recovering password from email program - Outlook Express

http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/resources/recover_outlook_express_password.php3

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.

 

[JillC]

I manually copied the files from the backup drive - that recovered my emails and address book. Those programs on your link are only good if you've already got your email accounts set up in OE and just need to recover the passwords - that is not my problem - I can find out the passwords. I want to know which email accounts were set up and what they were using as the reply-to address, which SMPT was used and what the message rules were doing. It would be so nice to find a file on the old HDD which I can just copy across.

 

[smah]

The settings that you're looking for are stored in the Windows registry

http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm#regOEkey