Transfer Outlook Express Settings from Old Computer to New Computer

This post explains the process of transferring Outlook Express mail account settings from old computer to new computer. The reason could be anything, change of hard drive, crashed computer, accidental deletion of the mail account, modifications in the account settings etc.

To transfer outlook express account settings from old computer to new computer, perform the following steps:

      1.    Attach Removable media like Pen drive or USB drive to your computer system.

2.    Open Outlook Express

3.    Click Tools from the menu bar and select the Accounts option.

4.    The number of mail accounts configured in Outlook Express will be displayed.

5.    Select the account of which the settings are required to be transferred.

 

6.    Now click the Export button from right panel of the window.

7.    The window to save the settings file on any other removable media will be displayed.

8.    The Outlook Express mail account settings file will get saved in mail.servername.IAF file extension.

9.    Save it on the attached removable media.

To import the saved settings file to new computer, perform the following steps:

      1.    Attach the Removable media to drive.

2.    Open Outlook Express

3.    Click Tools from the menu bar and select the Accounts option.

4.    Click the Import button from right panel of the window.

5.    Select the mail.servername.IAF file from the removable media and click Open.

6.    The .IAF file will get configured in Outlook Express

Thus the mail account settings of Outlook Express are successfully transferred from one computer to another. You can also modify these settings by selecting an account name and clicking Properties button from the right panel of the window.

If you need to recover deleted emails from Outlook Express .dbx file then download the Free trial version of Outlook Express recovery software to recover the lost, deleted emails.

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