Subject:
Reading in account{xxxx}.oeaccount in Windows Mail from preconfigured files
When Using Windows Mail under Vista, there is a document that claims you can import preconfigured account files.
Document location
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/outlookexpress/oe/overviews/account_entry.asp
It does not seem to work or I am doing it wrong
I have tried the sample files from the document just pasting them into an appropriate editor and creating the account{xxxx}.oeaccount file.
I have created an account under the tools options in Windows Mail and then used this as a template and once edited, Windows Mail will not read in the file.
I have tried to create the XML file manually using both Windows Text Editors and Unix Text Editors and it still does not work.
I have also read the xml file into third party software to alter the settings and it does not like reading in the file that windows mail has created as XML but it can deal with them as a plain text format.
On the Pre-Configured Scenario I take it that the store root folder is (taken from above url)
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Mail and there should be a file called account{xxxx}.oeaccount place here to enable Windows Mail to create the account.
The type of Email system is IMAP so I used the account{donhallimap}.oeaccount as a template.
Hopefully you can help with this problem as we need to configure rather a lot of email settings and doing them manually would be a backward step considering that I can place the email setting in the registry for users with Windows XP.
The only way in which I have managed to get a new account created from an existing one is where I have copied the account{xxxx}.oeaccount file from an existing folder and placed it in the root folder so Windows Mail can find it, but I have not edited it in anyway.
The Windows Vista system is a clean install.
hope you can help !