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

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

File identification

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 (archived)
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.