Mail-Cure for Outlook Express for Windows

User Reviews

• Finally something that works and is FREE!

  cluedofan12/9/2010

  Pros

  It works, it's free, it does multiple emails, it's easy to use

  Cons

  Nothing - though you must know where your .dbx files are

  Summary

  After trying lots of programs on here - this is the only one that worked and was free. After having a corrupt email in Outlook Express 6 make a whole folder look empty (though the dbx file still had contents) I finally used this to open the file, extract all 2,630 emails to a folder - and then all I had to do was create a new folder in OE6 and drag all the new .eml files into it! Easy! Thank you!<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Jan 11, 2011<p/>I thought this product did the job, but it turned out it only recovered 480 of my emails from a DBX folder - whereas another free program recovered 1695 emails. This program is easier to use than that though, so probably worth a try for a novice user as it may do the job for you.

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• Fantastic Program - and it is FREE

  TakeNotes3/19/2010

  Pros

  Ease of use. It works great. Processed a huge file quickly. And the best of all, it is FREE.

  Cons

  No problems. Certainly some of the emails were too corrupted to be recovered, but only a few.

  Summary

  I had a massive INBOX.DBX file that got corrupted. I lost everything. I searched everywhere for a free program. (I'm unemployed right now, and on a tight budget.) This program found 4,062 email messages in this corrupted file, and it was able to recover 4,031 messages. I was elated! THANKS! Nice interface, easy to use. I had moved the corrupted file to another directory, and so I was working from a copy just in case something went wrong. In the future, I will refrain from allowing my INBOX folder from getting that large. I would estimate about 1% of the recovered emails show signs of corruption, but the rest are clean. My operating system is XP, and using Outlook Express (Ver.6).

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• Unexpectedly quits - even in safe mode

  ChiliPepr2/19/2010

  Pros

  Free, has promise

  Cons

  Unexpectedly quits - even in safe mode

  Summary

  It would be great if this worked. Unfortunately, it does not.

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• It works! Simple, effective, but no options.

  wobbly_wombat5/31/2009

  Pros

  -Stand alone .exe (runs from flash drive) -High recovery rate -Simple to use -Yaaaay Freeware! :-)

  Cons

  inability to recover by date, sender, etc.

  Summary

  This is a great tool for those times when all your mail disappears for no apparent reason (well, that's what the user said - lol). It recovered a few thousand more emails than another (Shareware) program that was tried on the same system, and did so in a reasonably fast time. The stand alone .exe is a big improvement over some that want to be installed - the last thing you want to do when recovering data is start installing software on the effected machine! My only complaint is that email could only be recovered (saved) one at a time, or everything all at once - so I had to recover all of about 18,000 emails, then search through the saved files, in order to get the 200 or so from one two-month period that I needed to restore. All in all though, it did what it said it would do, and did it fast and easily, with no confusing technical options or dialogues to frighten a novice.

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