Deleted emails in Outlook Express inbox

Deleted items in inbox of Outlook Express was emptied 'automatically' (without a command), probably my inbox was filled to much.
2800 e-mails appeared in the dust bin as a batch.
I transferred (relocated) them to: "Local setting/Application data/Identities", but could not be opened any email.
Any suggestions friends,

If you carefully follow these instructions, you may be able to recover them.
1. First CLOSE Outlook Express.
2. Hopefully you haven’t emptied your recycle bin yet. DON’T EMPTY IT.
3. Click to open your Recycle Bin and do check it. Do you see any files that end in .bak, like drafts.bak, sent.bak, and
especially inbox.bak. If you do, it’s recoverable. But DON’T right-click and choose restore YET. (If you don’t see the files there, they may be in another folder, which you’ll get to later. At any case, they’ll have the .bak extension.)
4. If you’re not already viewing details, choose VIEW from the top menu, and click on DETAILS. This is so you can see the
original file location.
5. The original file location could look something like this:  - C:\Documents and Settings\Default\Local
Settings\Application Data\Identities\some string\inbox.bak  - (Default could be some other name, some string is the string that you were given, which is different for different users.)
6. You’re going to have to find that original folder, but you might have to reveal hidden files and folders to do so. Local
Settings are usually hidden.  - Click START, Choose CONTROL PANEL, and Click FOLDER OPTIONS (for Windows 7, you’ll have to click on APPEARANCE AND PERSONALIZATION link first before you can click on FOLDER OPTIONS.) Then click
VIEW and look in the ADVANCED SETTINGS Window for SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS. Click that radio button if it isn’t already chosen, then click the OK button.
7. Now you’re ready. Find that folder, and look for an inbox.dbx. That is your current INBOX.
8. Right-click inbox.dbx and rename it inbox2.dbx, just in case
9. Now you can go back to your Recycle Bin, right click inbox.bak, and choose RESTORE.
10. That file inbox.bak should now be in the folder you just found.
11. Right click inbox.bak and rename it inbox.dbx
12. Now open Outlook Express and your inbox messages should be restored.
OR if that doesn’t work ..
From the Outlook Express Top Menu, click File > Import > Messages >
Choose the email program you use  If it was Outlook Express 6, then choose >Import Mail
from an OE6
Store Directory
> Click OK, and browse for that folder you just found
> Click and choose inbox.dbx or whichever file you want to restore, those messages should be restored.
In case both methods don't work, then use OE-Mail Recovery http://www.oemailrecovery.com/outlook-express-recovery.html

Similar Messages

Rescuing deleted emails from Outlook Express 5 for mac

Dear Forum
Wasn't quite sure where to post this, but I would be grateful if anyone could cast some light on the following puzzle. I am trying to retrieve deleted emails from Microsoft Outlook Express 5 Macintosh edition (vers 5.02 2022) running on a G4. Using Data Recovery 2, I have uncovered two databases that hold the information, but I am unable to open them in Outlook or other programs. Is it something to do with 'End of file' as a friend suggested? I have tried importing them as my default database to no avail. When they were opened as raw text, there are definitely email addresses and parts of emails embedded in there, but nothing I can use. I desperately need to access these mails so that I can take an ex-client, who still owes me money, to court.
Any assistance would be most appreciated.
Thanking you for your help.
Kind regards
Chilliman2

Hi, chilliman2 -
There is one other option. You can use BBEdit Lite to open the message and database files. This utility will display all the text in most any file, including many damaged ones that otherwise can not be opened. BBEdit Lite is free -
BBEdit Lite
Although the SFGet window, opened via the Open command in the File menu, will not display the OE files as openable files, they can be opened by dropping them onto the icon for BBEdit Lite (just confirmed that to make sure).
The bad news - you would need to search through the file to find the section for any specific email message, then copy that portion to another file for printing. This can take a lot of work if the file is large.
The good news - even the usually non-visible header info for each message is included in the Messages file, and is shown in BBEdit Lite.
Whether this result will be suitable for your purposes is a different issue.

Rescuing deleted emails from Outlook Express 5 mac vers

Dear Forum
I would be grateful if anyone could cast some light on the following puzzle. I am trying to retrieve deleted emails from Microsoft Outlook Express 5 Macintosh edition (vers 5.02 2022) running on a G4. Using Data Recovery 2, I have uncovered two databases that hold the information, but I am unable to open them in Outlook or other programs. Is it something to do with 'End of file' as a friend suggested? I have tried importing them as my default database to no avail. When they were opened as raw text, there are definitely email addresses and parts of emails embedded in there, but nothing I can use. I desperately need to access these mails so that I can take an ex-client, who still owes me money, to court.
Any assistance would be most appreciated.
Thanking you for your help.
Kind regards
Chilliman2

Hi, chilliman2 -
There is one other option. You can use BBEdit Lite to open the message and database files. This utility will display all the text in most any file, including many damaged ones that otherwise can not be opened. BBEdit Lite is free -
BBEdit Lite
Although the SFGet window, opened via the Open command in the File menu, will not display the OE files as openable files, they can be opened by dropping them onto the icon for BBEdit Lite (just confirmed that to make sure).
The bad news - you would need to search through the file to find the section for any specific email message, then copy that portion to another file for printing. This can take a lot of work if the file is large.
The good news - even the usually non-visible header info for each message is included in the Messages file, and is shown in BBEdit Lite.
Whether this result will be suitable for your purposes is a different issue.

Moving emails from outlook express to mail

is there a way to get all of my old emails from outlook express to mail? My old PC is about to die and then I'll loose all of my emails :s that is why I am wondering if there is a solution, now.

I don't know whether you can do this on a PC version of Outlook Express or not, but I know that you can do stuff like this with Apple's Mail, so it may be worth a shot to try this and see if it works.
First off, I am assuming that all this old mail is a POP account, and not IMAP. If it were IMAP, it would all be safe on your email account provider's IMAP server and all you would have to do is create the new account in Apple Mail and the first time you connected, it would autosync with the server and all your old mail would just be there. But if POP, all mail is downloaded to your computer then deleted from the server. So, assuming this to be a POP account, here is what I would try to do if I were you.
1. Go to http://webmail.aol.com and sign up for a new free IMAP email account from AOL. You could get a free gmail account if you wanted, too, but I believe there is a bit of extra configuration involved in making it a IMAP and not POP. AOL is IMAP by default. Plus, AOL is a built-in new-account setup option in Apple Mail.
2. On the PC in Outlook Express, add a new account for your new AOL email account. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883081 to find out all the particulars about account settings and how to do it in Outlook Express.
3. On the Mac in Apple Mail, as stated in #1 above, AOL Mail is one of the options when creating a new account. Just follow Mail's "new account wizard" to create your AOL account there.
4. On the Mac, create a second new account for your existing POP account. Mirror the individual mail folder layout that are on your old PC for the old POP account.
5. This is the part that I don't know if PC Outlook Express will let you do, but I know that Apple Mail does:
(a) Open each of your mail folders in the old POP account stored on your dying hard drive one at a time
(b) Highlight/select all the messages in that folder
(c) Drag them to the AOL inbox. In Apple Mail, they would be copied to the IMAP server, preserving all the original "From" and "Date Received" and other information like that.
6. On the Mac, drag the messages that you uploaded into the AOL inbox and drop them into the appropriate folder of the "legacy" POP account that you created in #4. That will clear them out of the AOL inbox and they will now be stored on your computer as downloaded popmails.
7. Go back to step #5 and repeat this process for each of your folders on the old PC until you have emptied all the messages off your old computer.
Now, I will have to issue a disclaimer that I have only done this myself from IMAP to IMAP and to/from IMAP from/to "On My Mac" folders, which keeps copies of messages locally but not on IMAP servers. So I have no reason to suspect that this would not apply equally to POP since it worked with "On My Mac" folders. And whether the PC's Outlook Express will support the POP-to-IMAP drag-and-drop is a total unknown to me.
I'm sure I'll hear back via this forum whether this worked or not, but it's the best idea that I can come up with, and like I said, a similar (but not identical) situation worked for me before.

Email links (outlook express)

Windows XP.
Checking my emails via outlook express is fine with the exception of when links are contained within the email.
The source is fine as i know them, clicking on the web link within the email just freezes the outlook express, in fact the only cure is to restart the PC. This is something that has only just occured, but don't seem to fined any settings that might help......Using BTyahoo mail is fine, links work ok, its just when using outlook express.
any ideas please.

Have a look at this it might help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177054
Also check settings.
POP3
Server: mail.btinternet.com
Port: 995 (this should be automatically populated if you tick SSL Encryption)
SSL Encryption: Enabled
Username: your email address including the @btinternet or @btopenworld.com part
Password: your btinternet password
POP from folder: By default, POP will pull emails from your Inbox
SMTP
Outgoing Mail Server: mail.btinternet.com
Port: 465 (this may not be automatically populated on selection of SSL, so you'll need to check this)
SSL Encryption: Enabled

Deleting email on outlook opens a file download from firefox

deleting email on outlook opens a file download from firefox

Windows 7 - Outlook has a file download box that will not go away.,please help
go to this website and the solution is there...
http://www.sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/176965-outlook-has-file-download-box-will-not-go-away-please-help.html

I have Windows computers. My email is Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail. What email service does Apple use on the MacBook Pro?

I have Windows computers. My email is Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail. What email service does Apple use on the MacBook Pro?

Hi..
The native Mac Mail app. Comes pre installed on all Macs.
http://www.apple.com/support/mail/

Set up Telstra email on Outlook Express (5.5 or 6.0)

This page will help you set up your Telstra email with Outlook.com on Outlook Express version 5.5 or 6.0.
Outlook is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Before you start
You'll need your Telstra email username and password.
Note: The setup and use of your email account may incur data use charges.
You may need to first turn on a POP Internet email protocol for your Outlook.com account (following Steps 1 to 5 below) – if your email app:
does not support Exchange ActiveSync or IMAP, but
does support POP3
If you're not sure, you should follow Steps 1 to 5 to check that the right settings have been applied.
Step 1
Sign in to your Outlook.com account
Step 2
Press the Options icon – and then press Options
Step 3
Under Managing your account, press Connect devices and apps with POP
Step 4
Under POP, select Enable
Step 5
Press Save
Then use the following settings in your email app.
Step 6
Open Outlook Express
If prompted to connect, press Work Offline
If any error messages appear, press the Hide button
Step 7
Open the Tools menu – and then select Accounts
Step 8
In the Internet Accounts window, select the Mail tab
Step 9
Press the Add button – and then select Mail.
Step 10: In the Display Name box, enter your name as you’d like it to appear in the emails you send – and then press the Next button
Step 11: In the Email address box, enter your full email address (ending in @bigpond.com or @bigpond.net.au)
Step 12: Press the Next button
Step 13: In the Email Server Names window, update the settings for your Outlook.com mailbox as follows:
My incoming server is a POP3 server
Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, HTTP) server: Enter pop-mail.outlook.com
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: Enter smtp-mail.outlook.com
Step 14
Press the Next button.
Step 15
In the Internet Mail Logon window:
Enter your full email address in the Account Name box
Enter your Telstra email account (case-sensitive) password in the Password box
Ensure the checkbox is NOT ticked for Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
Step 16
Press the Next button – and then press Finish to complete your setup.

Re: Set up Telstra email on Outlook Express (5.5 or 6.0)
Hello.
I bought my parents a new laptop. They insisted they couldnt access their bigpond email using it and have created an outlook account.email address, and now after reading this page I think I know why! They are now trying to import their old contacts. Can you advise? Their old email address was [email protected] and their new address is [email protected] Is that what they shouldve done? ie created a new email address?

Set up BigPond Email on Outlook Express (5.5 or 6.0)

This page will help you set up your BigPond® Email on Outlook Express version 5.5 or 6.0.
Outlook is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Before you start
You'll need your Telstra email username and password.
Note: The setup and use of your email account may incur data use charges.
Step 1
Open Outlook Express.
If prompted to connect, press Work Offline.
If any error messages appear, press the Hide
Step 2
Open the Tools menu and then select Accounts
Step 3
In the Internet Accounts window, select the Mail tab
Step 4
Press the Add button and then select Mail
Step 5
In the Display Name box, enter your name as you'd like it to appear in the emails you send and then press the Next button
Step 6
In the Email address box, enter your full email address (ending in @bigpond.com or @bigpond.net.au)
Step 7
Press the Next button
Step 8
In the Email Server Names window, update the settings for your mailbox as follows
My incoming server is a POP3 server
Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, HTTP) server: Enter mail.bigpond.com
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: Enter mail.bigpond.com.
Step 9
Press the Next button.
Step 10
In the Internet Mail Logon window:
Enter your full email address (ending in @bigpond.com or @bigpond.net.au”) in the Account Name
Enter your (case-sensitive) password in the Password box
Ensure that the checkbox is NOT ticked for Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
Security: This server requires a secure connection (SSL)
Step 11
It is critical to ensure that the checkbox here is ticked to indicate that the outgoing server requires authentication (most email clients don’t select this by default)
Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with the POP and SMTP connection, and SMTP authentication for security.
Step 12
Press the Next button and then press Finish to complete your setup.

It doesn't address what I needed help with
I am trying to make my big pond address the secondary address on outlook and Microsoft says the reason I can't stems from big pond. Please change any settings that are preventing me from changing addresses through my outlook account. This is to assist my work / study /life. Thankyou.
Ferne O'Loughlin
[email protected]

Is there any way to recover deleted account on outlook express?

I didn't know that deleting account in outlook express will also delete the DBX files of that account. Is there any way to recover the dbx files?
1122

Unfortunately, the mail accounts settings (and messages rules) for Outlook Express are stored in the Windows registry and not in a file that can be easily restored.

How do i send emails with outlook express from firefox

how do i send emails with outlook express from firefox

You can add a button by using the [http://webdesigns.ms11.net/getmail.html Get Mail] add-on.

How do I migrate emails from outlook express to Mac

I want to keep some emails from Outlook express on my old pc how do I migrate them to mail on my new macbook pro?

Purchase EMailchemy, it will do the conversion and export for you.

After i have installed the new iOS, my deleted emails reappear in my inbox! help!

After i have installed OS X Yosemite, my deleted emails just reappear in my inbox. I am using Gmail. I have tried changing the settings etc.
After I deleted the emails, it will disappear from my inbox for a while, then reappear. Even when i tried going to trash and delete immediately, it doesn't work. In fact, it became worse because all my previous deleted emails all returned into inbox! Please help!

Bonjour Pierre,
there seems to be a bug in iOS5 with regards to Bluetooth. THere are a lot of threads in here on this. We're all waiting for Apple to fix this...

Deleted Emails Come back into Inbox

I have a iPhone 3GS with POP3 email account. When i delete emails from the iPhone inbox, occassionally I'll receive the same emails as "new" emails into my inbox again...after they've been deleted. Sometimes i delete by sliding the message to show the delete button, sometimes i use the edit to delete multiple emails and sometimes i delete from within the message. i have the settings set to delete from server when deleted from inbox. any thoughts?

I have the same problem on MacBook Pro using os 10.5.8 with Mail 3.6.
I discovered that if I look at emails that have been sent to trash select them and press delete they all come back. When I do the proper erase deleted messages then they don't.
This might be useful on your iphone.
I now have emails coming back to me weeks, or months after I have deleted them, particularly ones with photos attached that I have sent through Kodak EasyShare, and copied to myself!! does anyone know what I can do about this? apart from being a waste of time, I might receive 100 photos in one day which slows everything down and effects my data usage.

Outlook Express Inbox is crashed. Can i repair it?

Outlook Express Inbox is crashed. Can i repair it?

There are two possible reasons of this problem, if .dbx files are damaged than you can recover it with this soft called
OE-Mail Recovery:
http://www.oemailrecovery.com/repair-outlook-express.html
but If Outlook Express prompt you to compact messages and you was agree then you can saw "Good buy" to old messages

Deleted emails in Outlook Express inbox

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for