Over the past couple of decades, emails have become an important part in business communication. Why? Email is an inexpensive, fast and highly effective source of communication. Every day, millions of emails are sent from companies to their customers and suppliers, from employees to their managers and from one office colleague to another. Due to such an excessive use of emails, email clients have become very popular among email users. Outlook Express is old email client provided by Microsoft. Though it has been discontinued, still some old organizations and home users are still using it. In this post, we’ll learn about Outlook Express client and its amazing features. Also, I’ll show you why corruption takes place in Outlook Express and how to repair DBX file.

Outlook Express

Outlook Express is a discontinued email cum news client provided by Microsoft with Internet Explorer versions 3.0 through to 6.0. It was formerly known Microsoft Internet Mail and News. Later, Outlook Express was replaced by Windows Mail. People might get confused with Outlook Express and MS Outlook. But the fact is that both are different from each other. Outlook Express is just an email client application, on the other hand, MS Outlook is a personal information manager that includes many features other than email.

Just like any other email client, Outlook Express also needs at least one email client. By the way, you can configure one or multiple email clients at a time. Outlook Express stores all the email messages in a DBX folder. In Outlook Express, there are multiple DBX folders created for a single email account. DBX folders have names corresponding to their email mailbox, such as Inbox.dbx, Sent Items.dbx, Draft.dbx, Deleted Items.dbx. There’s one more DBX folder in Outlook Express, Folders.dbx that stores the master index for all the mailboxes. In the case of missing of any of DBX folders, Outlook Express reindexes the mailboxes and recreates it. In order to store contact information, it uses WAB aka Windows Address Book files.

Corruption in Outlook Express

There’s no computer application immune to many severe issues. Even the files created by them are prone to corruption. The DBX files created by Outlook Express is not immune to corruption. It may become corrupt at any time due to any reason. Whenever corruption takes place in Outlook Express’ DBX files, they become inaccessible. And sometimes corruption can also cause data loss situations.

You just can’t open a corrupt DBX file. You must try to repair DBX file using an easy manual trick (shared below). But if the manual trick fails or doesn’t work, you must try a smart DBX Repair tool to repair Outlook Express DBX file and to recover Outlook Express emails from corrupt DBX file.

Repair DBX file manually 

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