How to Recover Saved Email Passwords in Outlook

In this article, you’ll learn where Outlook stores your email login passwords, how they are protected, and how you can easily recover them.

Outlook Password Secrets

Outlook saves all your email login passwords at following Registry location based on version (Outlook 2019 to 2000)

[Outlook 2016/2019]
HKEY_CRRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook\

[Outlook 2013]
HKEY_CRRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook\

[Outlook 2002 to 2010]
HKEY_CRRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\

[Outlook Express, 98, 2000]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\OMI Account Manager\Accounts\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts\

For each stored account, Outlook (version 2002 to 2019) creates subkey under above Registry location. Each such subkey contains all details such as mail server, username, password for different protocols (IMAP/POP3/SMTP/HTTP).

Below is the table showing different registry value names used to store each of these email configurations.

	Username	Password	Email Address	Server	Port
IMAP	IMAP User	IMAP Password	Email	IMAP Server	IMAP Port
POP3	POP3 User	POP3 Password	Email	POP3 Server	POP3 Port
HTTP	HTTP User	HTTP Password	Email	HTTP Server URL	N/A
SMTP	SMTP User	SMTP Password	Email	SMTP Server	SMTP Port

Outlook (v2002 to 2019) encrypts the above password using Windows DPAPI (Data Protection API) functions and finally stores it as binary value.

However Outlook uses different mechanism for storing exchange server passwords. From v2002 to 2019, Outlook stores all exchange server passwords in ‘Windows Credential Store’ with special protection that makes password decryption possibly only from LSASS system process.

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