extract data for .pst file sans outlook

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My previous employer used Outlook as the email client. When I asked
them to send me several old emails that I need for personal reference,
they forwarded them as a .pst file. I no longer have access to a
compatible version of Outlook, is there any way of extracting those
emails without first getting access to Outlook?

Chris Tully
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The .pst file format is undocumented and proprietary. You might want to ask your friends or relatives if anyone uses Outlook and have them open the .pst file and extract what you need.

If all else fails, you can send it to me (milly at millmeister dot com) and I will extract the emails and send them to you as text files.

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After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| My previous employer used Outlook as the email client. When I asked
| them to send me several old emails that I need for personal reference,
| they forwarded them as a .pst file. I no longer have access to a
| compatible version of Outlook, is there any way of extracting those
| emails without first getting access to Outlook?
|
| Chris Tully
| (e-mail address removed)
 
My previous employer used Outlook as the email client. When I asked
them to send me several old emails that I need for personal reference,
they forwarded them as a .pst file. I no longer have access to a
compatible version of Outlook, is there any way of extracting those
emails without first getting access to Outlook?

Chris Tully
(e-mail address removed)
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I am not aware of any applications aside from Outlook that can deal with PST files.

Download a Trial version of Office:

http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx
 
I have a similar problem, but I can't even find my old emails. I downloaded
Outlook 2007 yesterday. I was previously using the old Outlook Express 6
which it made me delete before I could download Outlook 2007. I found
yesterday's archived email files...I think but like you, I can't extract
them. I know enough about computers to be dangerous. Can someone first guide
me to the correct file with all of yesterday's emails - Outlook 2007 only
imported the most recent 3 and they were from Microsoft re downloading the
new product; and secondly, how do I extract them once I find them.
 
Outlook and Outlook Express are totally different programs and use a different file for storage. If you used OUtlook Express for emails, they will be accessible using Outlook Express. Outlook will not be able to access them unless they are active in OE.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, albatross51 asked:

| I have a similar problem, but I can't even find my old emails. I
| downloaded Outlook 2007 yesterday. I was previously using the old
| Outlook Express 6 which it made me delete before I could download
| Outlook 2007. I found yesterday's archived email files...I think but
| like you, I can't extract them. I know enough about computers to be
| dangerous. Can someone first guide me to the correct file with all of
| yesterday's emails - Outlook 2007 only imported the most recent 3 and
| they were from Microsoft re downloading the new product; and
| secondly, how do I extract them once I find them.
|
|| My previous employer used Outlook as the email client. When I asked
|| them to send me several old emails that I need for personal
|| reference, they forwarded them as a .pst file. I no longer have
|| access to a compatible version of Outlook, is there any way of
|| extracting those emails without first getting access to Outlook?
||
|| Chris Tully
|| (e-mail address removed)
 
Ok, then is it possible to open OE6 simultaneously with Outlook 2007 - just
long enough for me to retrieve a few emails I need for proof-of-purchase type
thing - and then shut it down, or is there still a problem of running the two
at the same time even though they are to different programs?
 
They run perfectly well in tandem - I have both open all the time.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, albatross51 asked:

| Ok, then is it possible to open OE6 simultaneously with Outlook 2007
| - just long enough for me to retrieve a few emails I need for
| proof-of-purchase type thing - and then shut it down, or is there
| still a problem of running the two at the same time even though they
| are to different programs?
|
|| Outlook and Outlook Express are totally different programs and use a
|| different file for storage. If you used OUtlook Express for emails,
|| they will be accessible using Outlook Express. Outlook will not be
|| able to access them unless they are active in OE.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, albatross51 asked:
||
||| I have a similar problem, but I can't even find my old emails. I
||| downloaded Outlook 2007 yesterday. I was previously using the old
||| Outlook Express 6 which it made me delete before I could download
||| Outlook 2007. I found yesterday's archived email files...I think
||| but like you, I can't extract them. I know enough about computers
||| to be dangerous. Can someone first guide me to the correct file
||| with all of yesterday's emails - Outlook 2007 only imported the
||| most recent 3 and they were from Microsoft re downloading the new
||| product; and secondly, how do I extract them once I find them.
|||
|||| My previous employer used Outlook as the email client. When I
|||| asked them to send me several old emails that I need for personal
|||| reference, they forwarded them as a .pst file. I no longer have
|||| access to a compatible version of Outlook, is there any way of
|||| extracting those emails without first getting access to Outlook?
||||
|||| Chris Tully
|||| (e-mail address removed)
 
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