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Thunderbird email folder contents are stored in a plain text file, one
folder per one text file. If all else fails, it is possible to open that
file with a text editor and salvage at least some email contents.
Where are the emails stored in
Thunderbird?
- Start your favorite text editor.
- Open required mail file in edit mode.
- Start searching the specific text
- When you have navigated to the desired text fragment, you should
select the full message. Every message in Thunderbird mail file
begins with a line starting with "From - " and having time
and date (something like From - Tue Aug 14 19:37:24 2007) ; therefore, by determining the nearest
starting line above and below the fragment, you find out the message
boundaries.
- Once you have selected the message, copy it
to the clipboard.
- Quit from the current mail file (If you are offered
to save changes to the mail file, always select NO)
- Create a new file to save the message to. Make sure to add a .EML extension to the
file name; since almost any mail clients enable to work with .EML
files. Keep in mind that by adding a .EML extension to the
name, you will be able to open them in almost any mail clients.
- Paste the data from the clipboard
- Save the .EML file
- Start Thunderbird
- Under menu File select Open saved messages...
- Open the required message
Note: Normally, any mail program can handle .EML files; for
doing so, you should find menu File and select something like
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Outlook Express stores email data in DBX files
(where are the DBX files stored?). Non-encrypted email data
is split into
segments 528 bytes long; therefore, if total message size is less than
528 bytes in length, it will be kept within the individual segment.
However, if the message is larger, it will occupy several
segments, thus making the task of message reconstruction difficult - you
need to locate all the individual fragments and assemble them back to
form a valid message. But
anyway, you can attempt to use a text editor for opening and searching
in Outlook Express mail files. If you need to extract more than a
minimal amount of email data, it's barely worth the effort it takes to
recover email messages in such a way; we suggest that you
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It is not really practical to analyze a PST file using a text editor.
- A PST file is mostly in a binary format, not easily readable.
- By default, a PST file is encrypted, making any kind of text
search impossible.
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