Re: Need Support to recover lost e-mail

On 7/14/2005 3:11 PM Blammo scribbled:

> On 13 Jul 2005 J G entered spamcop.help and left 
> news:[email protected]:
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>>Did you look into the inbox file itself (inbox no extension)?  You might
>>have just blown the index file, but I don't use outlook distress, so not
>>so sure.  I believe the Inbox should be a plain text file...
>>
> 
> 
> It's very hard to find the Outlook inbox, I have found it before, but I 
> don't remember where, and it's not plain text and hardly readable. And it 
> does have an extension.
> The best thing to do when you have a crash like that is to go to web mail 
> and see if any messages are still there, pop should not delete the messages 
> if it doesn't finish the download. If it did make it to the "delete stage" 
> then I don't know, it's probably gone.
> 
If that is true about OE, thats typical m$ lack of adherence to
standards - I thought it was pretty much standard that mbox format was
plain text.  but I've been wrong before...