How to Backup the Message Rules, Safe Senders and Block Senders list in Windows Mail
June 25th, 2008 • Filed Under • by Ramesh Srinivasan
Windows Mail stores the account specific settings such as Message Rules, Junk Mail options etc, under the following registry key and its sub-keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows Mail
Message Rules
To backup the Message Rules, follow these steps:
Click Start, type Regedit.exe. Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows Mail \ Rules
From the File menu, choose Export and save the branch to a .reg file.
Exit the Registry Editor.
Block Senders List & Safe Senders List
The Safe Senders and Block Senders list are stored in two separate sub-keys (Block Senders List & Safe Senders List) under the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows Mail \ Junk Mail
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