Recovery of locally saved and deleted emails

Microsoft Outlook and the smaller version Outlook Express serve as a unique liaison between your computer and Internet email channels. Using an e-mail client in this manner protects you in several ways. The most important of these is that when you initiate messages on your PC and then have your PC communicate with an Internet portal the records of those emails remain available on your PC. This differs from usage of web based e-mail services where all messages are stored in cyberspace. As with any file type that is stored on your local hard drive when it is deleted either accidentally or due to a logic malfunction the base data of that file remains intact until the area the file was stored in is overwritten with new information.

Programs for Microsoft Outlook Express recovery are designed to specifically find Outlook Express files using the DBX file format and place them on a list for potential recovery. When using the larger Microsoft Outlook application file recovery is accomplished in a different manner. Outlook recovery requires us to access a very special database file known as a PST. Programs for Outlook recovery are designed to open this file and at the very least allow the user to examine and copy text contents of both existing and deleted messages.