Mail Viewer is an excellent alternative when you want to open some mails which are in your Outlook but you cannot open it either because its not installed or Outlook itself doesn’t open.
Mail Viewer ( call it Outlook Viewer ) works like other Microsoft viewer which eliminates the necessity of installing the product. It supports standalone
- Microsoft Outlook Express 4,5 and 6 message database (*.idx/*.mbx/*.dbx),
- Windows Vista Mail
- Windows Live mail message databases
- and Standalone EML files
You will be able to view all the messages. The email attachments can be extracted in case you want to save it outside Outlook.You can use this as email recovery program just in case.
It shows other information like Source which can help you to find out which IP the mail came from etc. Check out Mail Viewer ( Via Ghacks )
There is good tool which recover mails Outlook Express recovery program is free as is known,it extracts and saves the user’s messages from files with the dbx extension that Outlook Express uses to store folders, messages and news on the local disk,extract the user’s correspondence from a corrupted .dbx file and to save messages to separate files of the *.eml format (RFC822 standard) after that,program will probably be able to undelete messages permanently deleted from the Deleted items folder,can also easily copy (or move) a message in the *.eml file to Outlook Express folders or to other programs supporting this standard,supports previewing the message bodies being recovered and stored in .dbx files (including corrupted dbx files),tool can recover Outlook Express data from *.dbx files in the batch mode,working with dbx files for Outlook Express versions 5, 5.5 and 6,tool running under all Windows operating systems starting from Windows 98 (Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003).