How to open mail saved with pst. extension on personal com..

Diane · External Since: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 76

I am trying to open mail saved with the pst. extension on my personal home
computer. Mail was saved on a flash drive from Microsoft mail 2003. I
currently do not have outlook on my home computer. Is there someway that I
can import the mail from the flash drive onto my home computer. For internet
services I usually sign on to AOL or Internet Explorer.

Thanks for any help that you can provide.

Gordon · External Since: Mar 09, 2009 Posts: 210

"Diane" <Diane.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:54E7C559-A005-4C38-8147-EB75D5FE0E83@microsoft.com...
> I am trying to open mail saved with the pst. extension on my personal home
> computer. Mail was saved on a flash drive from Microsoft mail 2003. I
> currently do not have outlook on my home computer.

Then you can't open the file. The ONLY application that will open a pst file
is Outlook.
There is an alternative - download and install the Trial version of Office
and open the pst file with that.
You can then import the mail into one of a number of free email clients such
as OE, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird.

Ingvar · External Since: Nov 05, 2009 Posts: 1

I have about the same problem as Diane.
I had a diskcrash on my computer (running XP and Outlook) and bought a new
(running Windows 7). On this I intend to run Windows Live Mail, but have
problem with getting the old mails and contacts from the old .pst file. In
Windows Live Mail I tried to import the addressbook, but got the result "Can
not find Outlook addressbook". Have i placed the .pst file in the wrong
directory? Where should it be placed.
To be able to get my old mail I tried to install the trial version of
Outlook. And got the whole Office - except Outlook!? I already had Office
Home and Student installed. Is this creating problems?

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Regards
Ingvar

"Gordon" wrote:

>
> "Diane" <Diane DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:54E7C559-A005-4C38-8147-EB75D5FE0E83@microsoft.com...
> > I am trying to open mail saved with the pst. extension on my personal home
> > computer. Mail was saved on a flash drive from Microsoft mail 2003. I
> > currently do not have outlook on my home computer.
>
> Then you can't open the file. The ONLY application that will open a pst file
> is Outlook.
> There is an alternative - download and install the Trial version of Office
> and open the pst file with that.
> You can then import the mail into one of a number of free email clients such
> as OE, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird.
>
>

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outl · External Since: Jan 08, 2009 Posts: 982

"Ingvar" <Ingvar.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EFCD19F1-D8A5-48B7-A3A0-B1AA5C6D909B@microsoft.com...

>I have about the same problem as Diane.
> I had a diskcrash on my computer (running XP and Outlook) and bought a new
> (running Windows 7). On this I intend to run Windows Live Mail, but have
> problem with getting the old mails and contacts from the old .pst file. In
> Windows Live Mail I tried to import the addressbook, but got the result "Can
> not find Outlook addressbook". Have i placed the .pst file in the wrong
> directory? Where should it be placed.

You cannot import a PST into Windows Live Mail. You must have Outlook
installed and properly configured to reference the PST before you can move
data between Outlook and Windows Live Mail.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

wangdong · External Since: Aug 18, 2009 Posts: 19

If you have some problem with pst file.You can try to fix your pst
file.A third part repair tool called Advanced Outlook Repair may be
helpful.You can download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe
.. I think it is a useful repair tool for you. It is easy to recover
your PST file by using its wizard. It is a powerful tool to recover
messages, folders and other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft
Outlook PST files.

Detailed information about Advanced Outlook Repair can be found at
http://www.datanumen.com/aor/

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