Outlook Express .DBX File

January 21st, 2007
Posted by admin | Under Email Tips

In recent times, email communication has evolved as the backbone of communication. To communicate with friends, relatives, clients, and colleagues people use different email clients. One such email clients is Outlook Express.

The email client is developed by Microsoft Corporation. People prefer this email client because of the following features:

  • Comes free with Windows operating system

  • Stunning graphical user interface

  • Easy to use; even if you are new to using software, you can easily use it to send/receive emails

  • Easy to setup, you just need to collect required information (like account name, email address, incoming mail server, outgoing mail server, etc.) from your ISP and rest of the process is can be done in few mouse clicks

  • You can save hundreds of emails, contacts, drafts, and calendars

  • Email filtering is too fast and easy

Listed above are some of the features that make Outlook Express the best email client. Outlook Express stores user’s emails, contacts, drafts, sent items, etc. in their respective DBX files. Listed below are the .dbx files that are created when you setup an email account in Outlook Express:

  • Inbox.dbx – Stores emails that are received from different person.

  • Outbox.dbx – When you send an email, then it is saved to the Outbox.dbx file before moving to the Sent Items.dbx file. If a problem occurs in sending the email, then the email is stored here until the problem is resolved and email is send again.

  • Calendar.dbx – Stores calendar items created by the user.

  • Contacts.dbx – Stores email addresses in your contact list.

  • Drafts.dbx – Stores emails that are saved.

  • Deleted Items.dbx – Stores emails that are deleted by selecting the Delete option or clicking the DELETE key on the keyboard. Emails available in the Deleted Items folder can be restored anytime in single mouse click. But, once the folder is emptied, Outlook Express email recovery software is required to recover the deleted emails.

  • Sent Items.dbx – Stores emails that are delivered to different email addresses.

These .dbx files are created in Outlook Express to store user’s emails, contacts, drafts, sent items. These files can collectively store data up to 2GB. This is all about DBX files in Outlook Express.

While using Outlook Express for e communication, you must consent to the fact the .dbx files are prone to damage. And damage to these files can create a barrier on the way to send/receive emails. Moreover, the data stored in the dbx files become inaccessible. At that particular moment of dbx corruption, you can use Outlook Express Email Recovery software to repair the corrupt DBX file and recover the lost data.

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