Microsoft makes two email clients, Outlook (not free, part of the Office 
suite) and Outlook Express (free, comes with Windows).
Outlook uses a single (unless you set it up otherwise) *.pst file for 
everything (unless you keep things on an Exchange server).  I have 
successfully taken my Personal.pst file from work and simply copied it 
to my home computer with no problems.
Outlook Express uses a *.wab file for the address book, and *.dbx files 
for email and usenet, a single file for each folder.
If your pst file is corrupt, you're probably out of luck.

Mario Mendes Jr. wrote:

>This is new to me.  I've always only worried about the pst file.  How do
>the DBX and the PST relate?  Could this be dependent on the type of mail
>server you use (exchange or others)?
>
>I just did a search for *.dbx in my pc and came up with only one file,
>which belonged to another app and not outlook.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Mario
>
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>>FOLDER_NAME.dbx files are the emails..
>>
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>>andrwe
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>>On 1/10/06, Mario Mendes Jr. <mario@mmendes.com> wrote:
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>>>You can try importing from your pst file (File->Import and Export menu),
>>>but opening it should've worked.
>>>
>>>Good luck.
>>>
>>>
>>>-Mario
>>>
>>>
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>>>>Gentlemen:
>>>>
>>>>After a recent hard drive crash (the windows SAM file (its where the
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>>>users
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>>>
>>>>and passwords are stored) was broken and this provoked a new
>>>>computer.....Ect) I recovered the outlook .PST files that had loads of
>>>>important emails ect stored within them. Added them to outlook but the
>>>>don't
>>>>open properly all folders show as empty !!! The file is about 400M and
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>>>>
>>>it
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>>>>the last 3 years email history (the important stuff anyway) Does
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>>>anybody
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>>>>know how to recover the info from these files????.
>>>>
>>>>Rgds Steve
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