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 | ||
| + | * Offline Database: 26FE9D30-1A8F-11D2-AABF-006097D474C4 | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
| − | * [ | + | * [{{ForensicsWikiURL|outlook_express_database_%28dbx%29}} Forensic Wiki page] |
| − | * [http://oedbx.aroh.de/ Downloadable file format info] | + | * [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) | + | * [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] | ||
| + | * [https://sourceforge.net/projects/undbx/ undbx] tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from Outlook Express .dbx files. | ||
[[Category:Microsoft]] | [[Category:Microsoft]] | ||
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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Links
- 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.
