- Software to read Outlook Express mail files?
- Posted by SS on April 14th, 2006
I have some outlook express 6 mail files from my crashed computer. I cannot
re-import them to OE as I did not back them up. MailNavigator will access
them but I find the user interface difficult to use compared with the
display format of OE. Is there any other software that will display the
folders, files and newsgroup messages that I saved from the previous
incarnation of OE before I had to reload the software?
- Posted by Dan Evans on April 14th, 2006
"SS" <xsx2000x@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Yes you can, backuping up makes no difference to the .dbx files, import
them. File->Import->Messages->OE6
then navigate to the folder with the .dbx files
MailNavigator will access
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- Posted by dadiOH on April 14th, 2006
SS wrote:
Just opening them (click on) should open them in OE.
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- Posted by Gordon on April 14th, 2006
Mike Easter wrote:
And neither of those will work if the OP did not backup the folders.dbx
file.
- Posted by Gordon on April 14th, 2006
dadiOH wrote:
No it won't - they have to be imported into OE.
- Posted by Gordon on April 14th, 2006
SS wrote:
So where are these files if you didn't back them up, and why cannot you
import them into OE?
- Posted by Mike Easter on April 14th, 2006
Dan Evans wrote:
Insert check the radio button for 'From an OE store directory' instead
of the default from an OE identity.
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Mike Easter
- Posted by Dan Evans on April 14th, 2006
"Gordon" <gordon@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message
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I've never backed it, but imported the mail with every reinstall. If it's
*missing* then yes, the OP is screwed.
Dan
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- Posted by Gordon on April 14th, 2006
Dan Evans wrote:
No he's not screwed - it just is a bit laborious to get the mail folders
back into OE!
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- Posted by dadiOH on April 15th, 2006
Gordon wrote:
Oh.
So I should stop clicking on saved email/news messages archived in zip
files on CDs so that OE opens them? Gee, all these years I've been
doing that and I didn't know that I had to "import" them into
OE...figured the file extension association with OE would do the trick.
That assumes, of course, that the OP has his mail stuff in the form of
files - individual files - and not just a dbx.
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- Posted by Gordon on April 15th, 2006
dadiOH wrote:
The OP said FILES not messages. yes, you can open saved MESSAGES but not
saved FILES.
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Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
- Posted by dadiOH on April 15th, 2006
Gordon wrote:
Not to argue, but when a message is saved it *is* a file. How many
people know that the messages in OE are one big file per OE folder? No
one can really tell from the OP's post whether he is talking about dbx
files or saved message files although he *did* say that he "saved" them.
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- Posted by Dan Evans on April 15th, 2006
"dadiOH" <dadiOH@wherever.com> wrote in message
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..eml and .nws open with OE no problem, .dbx have to be associated with OE,
and clicking them only opens OE, not the actual "folder"
Dan
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- Posted by Mike Easter on April 15th, 2006
SS wrote:
You might like OEX better than MailNavigator
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx OEX is a complimentary program
to Microsoft®'s Outlook Express (OE) that provides enhanced message
processing features not present in OE. Such features can allow the user
to synchronize message stores between computers and maximize the
efficiency of their email message data.
OEX's developer Stephen Cochran is the developer of DBXtract and DBXtend
http://www.oehelp.com/Default.aspx
also OEBackup, OETool and others.
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Mike Easter
