Thanks to everyone. The critical thing right now is to get access to the mail box folders. We used Thunderbird here before we "upgraded" to MS Exchange. In the past I've used Eudora, and I even have a Gmail account. I've only used the Gmail account for miscellaneous stuff and never delved into the configuration so that might be an option.
My "home" PC isn't really at home but, rather, at my sister's business which has broadband (and she lets me use for free). Anyway, I won't be able to try anything until this weekend.
I tried several things suggested by MS Support, but obviously none of them worked. I checked my PC (XP SP3) here and it doesn't have an "Inbox Repair Tool" or anything that looks like it; maybe mine does, but it doesn't ring a bell.
Thanks for all of the help.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Jedrzejewicz
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:58 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Outlook Express 6.0
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Lukas Beeler
<lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 17:59, John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd suggest looking for tools to repair corrupted .PST files. ÂI think it's
more common for your data to become corrupt than for the app itself.
Outlook Express doesn't use .pst files - only Outlook does.
Outlook Express uses .mdx and .dbx files. I've tried to look for a
tool i've used in the past, but the first five pages of Google Search
results are full of spam.
Oops, sort of. I read when doing my quick research that the "Inbox
Repair Tool" will repair OE mailboxes, and as I understand it the tool
is installed with Windows and OE rather than with Office/Outlook.
Another alternative I have seen is to move the .dbx and .mdx files
somewhere and open OE. If OE opens after removing the mailbox files,
corruption was the problem. If it doesn't, re-install it. Then use
the import option (which can import from Outlook Express files) to
re-import the messages.
Still, I recommend going to Thunderbird or Gmail rather than putting
time into Outlook Express. Both can import the old messages easily
enough.
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Tom Jedrzejewicz
midrange.com
