Recovering data from an OST file

From: Joseph Mouhanna (josephmo_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/21/05

  • Next message: Corentin Cras-Méneur: "Re: Mac OSX and Exchange 5.5" 
    Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:33:29 GMT

    Here's the scenario:

    While doing a test setup of SBS, I set up the server with an FQDN, let's
    say: mine.acme.local and the DNS name is acme.com. I set up a couple of
    accounts (account A and account B) and was sending/receiving email fine. I
    was accessing these accounts from workstations A and B, using a profile,
    let's call ProfileAMine on Workstation A.

    When I moved to the final setup (I erased the original installation and
    everything on it), I changed the FQDN to minenew.acme.local, the DNS name
    remains the same: acme.com.

    Account A was set up to receive, in addition to Exchange emails, email from
    other POP3 accounts (and of course it was removing them from the POP3
    servers as it was retrieving). The account was set up to deliver the emails
    to the Inbox. I opened the Outlook client for Account A from workstation A,
    and of course it told me that it could not send/receive from the Exchange
    account (it was still using the original ProfileAMine). At this point, I can
    see all the emails that were downloaded from the POP3 servers in the Inbox.
    I then went to Tools --> Email Accounts --> View or Change existing email
    accounts, and deleted the Exchange account so I can add the new Exchange
    account information. Of course it asked me if I was sure I wanted to do
    that, and of course I said Yes I'm sure. You can predict what happened next:
    my Inbox was gone.

    I have the .OST file. Is there anything I can do to retrieve the POP3 emails
    that are now part of the .OST file?

    --thx, Joseph

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