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Export/import Outlook 2007 email account settings

Monday, August 30th, 2010

I can’t believe I seem to be the only person on the web to work this one out, but here’s how you export and import email account settings between profiles – for which there is no option within Outlook itself.

First of all, open regedit32.exe from the search box in the start menu.

Then, navigate to this key:

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxx\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\

This should be showing a list of the mail profiles you have on your machine:

regedit-outlook-profile

Navigate slightly further down the tree this time, to the key labelled:

<Profile Name>\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676\

This is the key that stores a list of all the email accounts in your Outlook profile:

regedit-outlook-accounts

To transfer these accounts to a different profile, or a different machine, do the following:

  1. export the registry branch 9375… to a new .reg file
  2. open the new file in a text editor
  3. do a find and replace for /<Profile Name>/ substituting the text between the slashes with your new profile name
  4. save the reg file
  5. double-click on the reg file to import it into the registry

If you did everything correctly, and the named profile exists, when you reopen Outlook, and go to Tools > Account settings… you should see your newly imported accounts:

outlook-accounts

It really does appear to be as simple as that. Yay :)

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