Sandy, Again, I am just going by what Microsoft states in their July 1, 2005, Technet article at: http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;903095&spid=2578&sid=265, which clearly states that Outlook Express uses a DBX file to store the data.
And the September 15, 2005, Outlook technet article at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830336, which clearly states that Outlook uses a PST file to store the data. Please (re)read these two articles before you dispute what I previously stated in my postings. While I value your input, you are not the author of these programs and I must defer to Microsoft for their technical expertise, and have done so, successfully, in the past, when recovering corrupted data from those individual kinds of files. Bruce Barnes -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 00:43 To: Bruce Barnes Subject: Re[2]: Know Outlook Limitations and recovery tools (WAS RE: [IMail Forum] Imail mail box size limit) > Re: "changed from what"? Outlook Express stores everything in a DBX > file, not at all like the PST file used in later versions of > Outlook... It is a complete falsehood to claim that the OE DBX format predates the PST format, or that the PST format "change[d] the format" from the DBX format in some sort of evolutionary path. The ANSI PST format has existed since the debut of the Exchange Client (4.0) in 1996, at which time the app that would later be called Outlook Express was still Internet Mail and News, and did not yet use the DBX format. PSTs from EC 4.0 can be read by later versions of Outlook; the first non-backward-compatible revision to the format was the Unicode PST introduced with Outlook 2003. In counterpoint, the OE 5+ DBX format was changed from the OE 4- MBX format, which in fact makes the DBX format the more "new-fangled" of the two ANSI formats. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/re lease/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
