Get back Outlook Express mails from an old hard drive.

[PaweMichalak]

I have a hard drive with a Windows installation that corrupted. There was no way to get it back up and running into Windows, but I am able to access the data on a new installation I have done on a new hard drive.
I need to get everything back up and running in outlook express. I have got the WAB and all the emails back in no problems, but there was never any backup of the old mail settings (iaf file).
The customer doesn't know any of there mail settings, or who host there domain to get the settings back. They said another person who used to keep these details has left.
I looked into it and some people have said about importing the settings from the old registry hive. I have opend regedit on the new install and loaded the SOFTWARE hive off the old drive, I have then exported the :
The Internet Account Manager registry key

|-HKEY_CURRENT_USER
|----Software
|-------Microsoft
|----------Internet Account Manager

Which is supposed to restore it, but it has done nothing.
Anyone got any ideas?

[Philip]

The above key only works for the main "Identity"...
You may also have to look under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID} There may be a sub-key there for each Identity with a long GUID (Global Unique Identifier) key in there for each "Identity".
Also, look under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Sotware\Microsoft\WAB

I am not sure a simple registry key export/import would work for those Identities though.

[YeOldeStonecat]

The customer doesn't know any of there mail settings, or who host there domain to get the settings back. They said another person who used to keep these details has left.

Mail settings should easily be found by looking up the MX records for this persons e-mail domain. This will point to the mail servers. From there...easy enough to find the "host"...contact them or spend a few minutes checking their website, for the POP/IMAP/SMTP settings.