Archive Outlook Express email

Hi,

I'm looking some old email which maybe archived already.
Does anyone know where the archive email stored in Outlook Express ? If I can locate those archived mail, how can I restore them back and make them read-able ?
Please help ...Thanks a lots.....

 

ise2006--I do not think OE does any archiving by itself. It is you that would have created the archived folders or messages.
Take a look here
http://www.sitedeveloper.ws/tutorials/outlook.htm
http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-geeks/2006-April/011635.html
http://winhlp.com/OeArchiveText.htm

If you cannot find the messages you want in the Store Folder as described in the first link, run a Search for *.dbx. Does that find more .dbx files in other places?
You cannot read messages in .dbx folders (unless they are in the Store Folder).
So you can either move the other .dbx folders there or use the program DBXtract mentioned in the second reference. You can get a free, but earlier, version of DBXtract here
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fi...-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/download.html#

However, if you saved individual messages from OE using File|Save As, you would have saved them as .eml files. If you cannot remember where you saved them, you can run a Search for *.eml. .eml files can be opened by just clicking on them. (OE will open them.)

 

If are on an IMAP rather than a POP3 email system, you would have had to manually move the files from the IMAP (remote) folders to one of your local folders to save them. Once they are archived off the remote system they cannot be recovered.