Mail Recovery Express

Technology is prone to occasional fail and software makes no exception. For instance, it might sometimes happen that instead of quickly accessing your mailbox folders, you simply get an error message, due to database corruption, virus attacks or system glitches. If you are using Outlook Express, what you can do in these unpleasant circumstances is, among other things, to use a mailbox recovery tool, such as Mail Recovery Express.

The application is intuitive enough to be used by anyone who needs to repair or recover their mail database in Outlook Express. Upon launch, you are greeted by the import wizard, which guides you step-by-step in recovering email messages or the address book and repairing the email database. In fact, these are the exact three options that you have to choose from in the first steps of the wizard.

Mail Recovery Express can retrieve mailbox data from local accounts (it imports the current settings of Outlook Express automatically), from individual files or from entire folders. Whichever option you go for, you must then wait for the application to search for data that can be recoverable.

All the compatible mailbox files are shown in an organized table if you choose the input folder. This table includes not only the name of the files and their type, but also their size and their location. extract attachments and HTML letters s They are then scanned and the containing messages are recovered and shown within the main window of the application as the wizard exits.

The main GUI of Mail Recovery Express is very much similar to that of an email client. The left side panel contains a list of all the recovered emails and messages, while the right-side panel reveals the sender and the receiver of the mail, the subject, its date, the size and a preview of the message body. If you have a long list of messages, the search tool can help you find the one you need to recover.

Recovered messages or, if you wish, entire mailboxes, can be saved locally or uploaded to an FTP server.

Mail Recovery Express can scan emails for errors, then restore them as EML files. Thanks to the wizard-based approach, all the tasks that this application has to carry out are easy to handle. It is worth a try of you find that your Outlook Express mailboxes are corrupt or damaged.