UnDBX is a tool that is designed to extract messages from Outlook Express (though users should note that Outlook Express overwrites the first 4 bytes of every 512-byte chunk of each deleted message). When installed for the first time to extracts all the messages as individual .eml files. After the first installation, the subsequent run of UnDBX synchronizes the output folder with the contents of the, dbl files.

The way it works is that new messages in the, dbx files that do not correspond to existing .eml files will be extracted and existing .eml files that do not correspond to messages in the, dbx files will be treated as deleted messages and will be deleted. The file names of extracted .eml files are composed from the contents of the “from” “To” and Subject: message headers.

It is a very user-friendly tool and there is no need for installation or set up program. What it requires is simply to extract the distribution .zip files to some folder. Thereafter, user will end up with several files/icons in that folder.

Massages deleted are usually stored by Outlook Express in a special folder and can therefore be restored by extracting them from the corresponding .dbx files.

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