If you changed your computer or your operating system or you had a very serious crash and lost your data and have to reinstall all your system it is good to know how to import an already existing email account, provided you have backed it up earlier in a safe place like a CD,DVD or external HD
Here few easy steps to do the job:

1. Open Outlook Express
2. Click on Tools and select Accounts




3. On the next window in the Mail tab , select the email Account you want and click Export




4. Browse to a folder easy to remember like MyDocuments and press open.You can burn this file on a removable media later on, but it's recommendable to do so if you don't want to have any problems in case of a Hard Disk crash.

If you had previously saved your email Account(s) on a CD or DVD is now the time to insert the removable media in the DVD burner on the Computer where you want to restore your email Account.

1. Open Outlook Express
2. click Tools > Accounts




3. On the next window in the Mail tab , select the email Account you want and click Import




4. On the next window browse to the folder where you saved your Account back-up,whether is on the Hard Drive or on a CD.It should look like "MyAccount.com.iaf" where "MyAccount.com" is your account Name.Click on Open and you have your email Account again.





5. Open Outlook Express go to Tools> Accounts your Account is on the mail tab