Outlook Express Database

File Format
Name	Outlook Express Database
Ontology	Electronic File Formats E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums Outlook Express Database ; ; ;
Extension(s)	.dbx
PRONOM	fmt/838, fmt/839

Latest revision as of 14:49, 3 September 2023

An Outlook Express Database (DBX) is used by Microsoft Outlook Express (distinct from Outlook) to store e-mail messages and folders.

Files begin with hex bytes CF AD 12 FE.

This is followed by a class ID (CLSID) depending on whether the file contains messages or folders:

Forensic Wiki page
Downloadable file format info (archived)
Outlook to Unix mail converter (supports DBX via library libdbx among other Microsoft mail-related formats). Contains FILE-FORMAT for Outlook Express 5.0 DBX files
DBX to PST converter
undbx tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from Outlook Express .dbx files.

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 == Links ==
-* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Outlook_Express_Database_%28DBX%29 Forensic Wiki page] [https://web.archive.org/web/20190311212311/www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Outlook_Express_Database_(DBX) (archived)]
+* [{{ForensicsWikiURL|outlook_express_database_%28dbx%29}} Forensic Wiki page]
 * [http://oedbx.aroh.de/ Downloadable file format info] [https://web.archive.org/web/20180307085639/http://oedbx.aroh.de/ (archived)]
 * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/ Outlook to Unix mail converter] (supports DBX via library libdbx among other Microsoft mail-related formats). Contains FILE-FORMAT for Outlook Express 5.0 DBX files
 * [http://www.stellaroutlooktools.com/outlookexpress/dbx-pst.php DBX to PST converter]
 * [https://sourceforge.net/projects/undbx/ undbx] tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from Outlook Express .dbx files.
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