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recovering email from exchange 5.5

  • 01-09-2003 9:41am
    #1
    buzz11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 764 ✭✭✭


    Can anybody shed some light;

    Upto a week ago I used exchange as part of a small network but now I want to go it alone on my desktop, I want to recover my emails from exchange 5.5 and load them back onto my desktop machine (outlook 2000)

    I cant find a .pst file so the data must be contained in my old exchange information... what is the file format that would contain all that info (contacts, inbox, sent items etc) ?

    any advice appreciated!


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  • #2
    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    may be an .ost file instead. connect to server and then you can export it to a .pst

    otherwise it is on the server as you suspect.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    tools - services - check for personel folders in there
    check the M$ exchange settings
    OST - is when you synchronise offline

    exmerge can be used to export mailboxes directly from the server.

    NOTE: if anything happens to your PST file say goodbye to your email....

    Actually in outlook - file export into a PST file.....
    Then file open to read it

    Note: if you burn a PST onto CD it becomes read only - so copy it off the CD and change the attribute from read only to see what is in it.


  • #4
    buzz11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 764 ✭✭✭buzz11


    Tried the above but no success. I reckon I'll have to reload exchange 5.5 onto another PC, set myself up as a user again and then export the emails to a PST.
    What folder are user mails stored in ?(in exchange)


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    SERVER
    If you run M$ Exchange Administrator ...

    open the site / click on the server - file properties
    you will then see the database paths
    usually \Exchsrv\mdBdata and \Exchsrvr\DSAdata
    Note: only Exm Server can read these - Clients can't


    CLIENT
    Outlook / Exchange
    Search for *.pst / *.ost on the HDD / on the server ....
    Check the properties of each of the items in Tools-Services in your current profile.

    (Reconfigure email support - if you are using smtp only - choose corporate)

    SMTP Client - eg: Outlook Express
    Don't Know - Don't care...


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