Microsoft is often not using a standard format which is the case when you take a look at how Outlook Express saves the mails that have been send and received. Outlook Express saves the mails by default in dbx files instead of saving them in the wildly used mbx format which is being used by Thunderbird, Opera and most other email clients.
This makes it very problematic to import the mails from an Outlook Express account into another mail client. Some mail clients, for example Thunderbird, offers a direct import function that is able to detect Outlook Express mails and import them directly into Thunderbird.
Other mail clients do not offer this function though. DbxConv is a command line utility that is able to convert dbx files from Outlook Express into the widely known mbx mail format. The easiest way of using this tool is to copy the dbx mails from Outlook Express into the directory of DbxConv and use the command DbxConv *.dbx to convert all files with the .dbx extension to mbx.
I would suggest to search for all files with the .dbx extension on your hard drive and copy those into the DbxConv folder.
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thanks. my old pc use xp and has outlook express in it. now i use vista and don’t know how to import my old mail to outlook. using this utility i can convert to mbx and eml so i can read my old mail
Well I got a DBX file and was told to simply place it in my account. On Vista that didnt seem to work, on XP it didnt either, imported with thunderbird and work with no issue!
From there I can export to eml or whatnot…