Outlook Email Recovery

Outlook doesn’t have a View, Source option like you’ll find in Outlook Express. It has View, Options which shows you the Internet header in a small text box. But it only includes the Internet header, not the full message source.

Using Outlook 2003 you can view the header and source together, if you edit a registry key. This works on mail obtained from Internet mail transports, not Exchange server mailboxes. However, if you access the mailbox using an Internet transport, you’ll see the full source. Open the registry editor and navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Mail
right click on the right pane and choose new DWORD:

Parameter: SaveAllMIMENotJustHeaders

Value: 1

Note: This works only on new mail received after you create the registry key. You won’t be able to see the source on email messages already downloaded.

PST is a file that contains messages, attachment files, contacts and other items stored in folders. When you create a PST, you can store it on your computer’s hard disk drive or on a file server that you have access to. You can create any number of PSTs and can save, copy, and move them around just like any other file. MS Outlook uses it for storing email messages, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, journals etc.

The following example shows how to merge a PST file called Mailbox.pst with a version from a backup also named Mailbox.pst. The scenario for this type of restore could be that a new computer was brought online for a user and they started using Microsoft Exchange with a default PST before obtaining their original PST. In this example, the PSTs need to be combined with special attention given to prevent overwriting the PSTs that have the same filename.

Steps to Merge Files:
1. Make backup copies of both PST files.
2. Rename the restored version of Mailbox.pst to Mailbox1.pst.
3. Copy Mailbox1.pst to the directory that contains the working version of Mailbox.pst.
4. Add Mailbox1.pst to your active profile using steps 5 through 8.
5. From the Tools menu in the Viewer, click Options and then the Services tab.
6. In the The Following Information Services Are Set Up In This Profile dialog box, click Personal Information Store, and then click Add. In the The Following Information Services Are Set Up In This Profile box, click Personal Information Store, and then click Add.
7. In the Available Information Services box, click Mailbox1.pst and then click the OK.
8. Keep clicking the OK button until all open dialog boxes are closed. 

You should now see two Personal Folders icons on the left pane of the Microsoft Exchange client. The remaining steps outline how to move information from the old PST (Mailbox1.pst) to the current PST (Mailbox.pst). When finished, you will have your old mail merged with the current working file.

Microsoft provides two application for email management -
1) Microsoft Outlook and
2) Microsoft Outlook Express

These email clients are widely used by home user, organisations and firms for managing their daily emails.

Many users face the problem in using Microsoft Outlook when it gets corrupted. Once Outlook got corrupted then it is not that easy to restore it quickly. Microsoft Outlook Express is a quick replacement available, to use for the same task of email management.

PST stands for “Personal STore” - Your personal mail storage. PST files are really fairly complex databases that contain your emails, calendar, contacts info and even more, when you use Microsoft Office’s Outlook mail program.

Current Version of Microsoft Outlook is Outlook 2007.

To repair your corrupt pst files, try using Repair PST software.

The restriction on maximum size of PST file depends upon the outlook version in which PST file is created.

Outlook 2002 and lower versions imposes a 2 GB file limit for PST files created using Microsoft Outlook 2000.

Outlook 2003 has extended this limit.

Check this link http://www.repairpst.net/blog/outlook-pst-file-location

The default Outlook PST File location can be located by using following tip :

Open the “Tree View” of your folders, if you haven’t already:

Each top level item, normally called “Personal Folders”, or “Outlook Today”, represents a separate PST. Right click on it and then select Properties:

Now click on the Advanced button:

And there, right in the middle of everything, is the Filename, the full path, to the PST. In this case you’ll notice that I’m most definitely using a non-standard location. Yours will most assuredly be different. The default location under Windows XP is typically a location underneath “\Documents And Settings\username”, where “username” is your Window login account name.

Outlook Rules provides you with an option to filter junk emails in Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook allows you to set up rules to help handle massive emails and control all emails according to Outlook Rules. To start creating a Microsoft Outlook rule, follow the below steps :

1. Open Microsoft Outlook.
2. Click Tools.
3. Click Rules Wizard.
4. Click the New button and run through the wizard. Below are some examples of the different types of rules that can be setup through the Microsoft Outlook Rules Wizard.

Move a specific type of mail to a folder within Outlook

Setup a rule to move e-mails based on the content of the e-mail. For example, you may want to move any incoming mails with autoreply message to the Deleted Items folder. To do this, follow the below steps.

1. Select “Check messages when they arrives”.
2. Check the box “with specific words in the subject or body”. In the below rule description window, click “specific words” and type: “out of office”, “autoreply”, and “auto reply” (each without quotes).
3. Click Next.
4. Check the box “move it to the specified folder” and “stop processing more rules”. In the below rules description window , click “Specified” and select the folder “deleted items”. You can also make it so all files are deleted automatically; however, if something is deleted that you may not want to be deleted, you will never know.
5. Click Finish.