Extract Email from Outlook Express (DBX file)

Overview Of Outlook Express DBX File

DBX is an Outlook Express database file, which is associated with email folders that store email messages in .dbx file format. DBX file saves all your folder messages in .dbx extension (i.e. inbox folder as inbox.dbx, sent items as sent.dbx). These files can be imported into Windows Live Mail by selecting file import > message > Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and locate it to proper DBX folder. (OE doesn’t support the use of DBX files). Whenever you receive a message, Outlook Express automatically saves it in .dbx file of the respective folder that it is representing.

This blog will explain you briefly how to extract email from Outlook Express DBX file

Need To Extract Email From Outlook Express DBX File

There are number of problems that occur while using Outlook Express especially when the database increases in size due to database compaction and increase in number of stored emails. This can corrupt its file database. Outlook Express was one of the earliest email clients to support HTML email and script. Many security flaws that do not have documented object model as Microsoft Outlook does. Due to these reasons, DBX files are export to PST file.

How To Extract DBX File Email From Outlook Express

Manual Method for Extracting DBX Emails : If you want to extract DBX emails using manual method then you need to import your Outlook Express files to Windows Live Mail.

Steps to Import Outlook Files to Windows Live Mail

1. On your computer, open Window Live Mail and MS Outlook at the same time.
2. In Windows Live Mail, Click File > Export > Email messages > Select Microsoft Exchange as a format and click Next.
3. Now, a message will appear saying all your mails are exported to Microsoft Outlook, and then click OK.
4. You can also select the folders according to your choice to extract DBX to MS Outlook.
5. As the export process completes you will get a message saying Export Complete > Click Finish.

Limitation of Manual Method

There is no manual procedure to extract DBX emails from Outlook Express because it could be lengthy and is not easy to understand for normal users. The manual method is time consuming and may lose your important files. The blog suggests users to use one of the third party tools to do the extraction easily, which allows you to:-

• Select the individual file or complete DBX folder to export into PST
• Advance conversion can be performed
• DBX to PST converter extract emails from healthy as well as corrupted files also

DBX Email Extraction Using Third Party Tool

Simplest steps involved to extract DBX email from Outlook Express Mailbox & export to PST file

• Launch DBX to PST Converter Tool
• Using DBX to PST Converter, browse the File or Folder. If you don’t know the path of DBX file the tool itself detects the storage location on selecting ‘Auto Detect The Storage Location’ option and then ADD the file.



• After you add the DBX file now export the file by clicking on Export to start the conversion. Before clicking on Export select the destination folder where you want to export the DBX file as PST.



• As the Export process completes, an Export Report will be generated by the tool. For further references, you can save this report in CSV file





• Now, you can check the exported PST file in Outlook. Open Outlook then go to File > select Open > Export and then Click Outlook Data File.



• Browse the Outlook data file, select it and Open it to open the Mailbox content.



• Now, finally you can view PST File storage consisting of Outlook Express DBX file contents.

Conclusion

This blog is aimed to help user in defining different conversion methods of extracting emails from Outlook Express DBX file to PST. Instead of using manual procedure, it is suggested that the user goes for third party tool for extracting email. Hence, you can use the secure and reliable tool to Extract Emails from Outlook Express DBX file to PST.