NAME

       undbx - a tool to extract e-mails from Outlook Express .dbx files.

SYNOPSIS

       undbx [options]<DBX-DIRECTORY|DBX-FILE>[<OUTPUT-DIRECTORY>]

DESCRIPTION

       undbx is a tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mails messages from Outlook Express .dbx files.

       Email are extracted in individual .eml files.

       When  a target directory is specified, undbx will extract e-mails from dbx files found in this directory.
       Instead of providing a target directory, the usr can provide a target dbx file.

       When no output directory is specified, undbx will  extract  emails  in  a  subdirectory  of  the  current
       directory.

       In  normal mode (not recovery), a message is extracted only if there is no corresponding .eml file in the
       destination directory.

       On the other hand, if a .eml file exists in the destination directory and no corresponding mail is  found
       in  the  .dbx file, the mail is considered deleted and undbx will delete this .eml file.  This way, undbx
       can be used as an synchronization backup tool for .dbx files.

       The file names of .eml files are composed by the From, To and Subjec: header  fields.   The  modification
       time of each file is set to match the date specified in the Date field of the mail header.

OPTIONS

       --help Provides a short help message.

       --recover
              undbx attempt to recover e-mail messages from a corrupted .dbx file.

       In  this  mode  fragments  of  messages are collected into .eml files. This may take a long time and some
       messages maybe corrupted.

       Also, all messages are extracted, not only the new ones.

       --version
              Shows the version string

SEE ALSO

       pffinfo(1) pffexport(1) munpack(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Christophe Monniez <christophe.monniez@fccu.be>  for  the  Debian  system
       (but may be used by others).

       Permission  is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

                                                February 23, 2011                                       undbx(1)