Seems that the loss of an overwritten hMailServer.INI is not a very rare event ... (and then the password for the MSSQLCE-Database is lost for ever)
https://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewt ... 49#p222149
Please introduce some kind of automatic backup mechanism for hMailServer.INI - so that everytime BEFORE writing something into it (and overwriting the old version) it the old (untouched) version will be automatically backed up to somewhere (into a subfolder and get some kind of timestamp - or else) so that it is never automatically overwritten without having an recovery version.