Outlook Express Database

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* Message Database: 6F74FDC5-E366-11d1-9A4E-00C04FA309D4
 
* Message Database: 6F74FDC5-E366-11d1-9A4E-00C04FA309D4
 
* Folder Database: 6F74FDC6-E366-11d1-9A4E-00C04FA309D4
 
* Folder Database: 6F74FDC6-E366-11d1-9A4E-00C04FA309D4
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* Offline Database: 26FE9D30-1A8F-11D2-AABF-006097D474C4
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Outlook_Express_Database_%28DBX%29 Forensic Wiki page]
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* [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)]
* [http://oedbx.aroh.de/ Downloadable file format info]
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* [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 among other Microsoft mail-related formats)
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* [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]
 
* [http://www.stellaroutlooktools.com/outlookexpress/dbx-pst.php DBX to PST converter]
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* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/undbx/ undbx] tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from Outlook Express .dbx files.
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Revision as of 23:57, 27 June 2022

File Format
Name Outlook Express Database
Ontology
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:

  • Message Database: 6F74FDC5-E366-11d1-9A4E-00C04FA309D4
  • Folder Database: 6F74FDC6-E366-11d1-9A4E-00C04FA309D4
  • Offline Database: 26FE9D30-1A8F-11D2-AABF-006097D474C4

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