Microsoft Outlook Express is a simple, fast and easy to use email client, which come bundled with Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. For effective management of your data in Outlook Express, it allows you to create special folders, along with the default folders. A DBX file is created for every OE folder and all of the data is stored in it. Although, its easy to manage data in Outlook Express but in some situations, when you try to start Outlook Express, you might come across some sort of error messages and the data become inaccessible. It causes critical data loss situations and require Outlook Express Recovery to be resolved.

In a practical scenario, when you try to open the Inbox folder in Outlook Express, you might come across the strange behavior of OE. You may find that the folder is empty and gives you the below error while opening: "An unknown error has occurred. Protocol: SMTP, Port: 0, Secure SSL: No, Error 0x800c0131Ce problem may be due to corruption or lack of Folders.dbx file." In such situations, the Outlook Express experts recommends you to sort out this problem by renaming the Inbox.dbx file to Inbox.old.

The above process would create a new Inbox.dbx file. Now the Outlook Express will allow you to access your Inbox without any problem, but the Inbox won't contain any data. Thus you will have to copy all the items of Inbox.old to Inbox.dbx. After copying all the items, when you restart Outlook Express, the same problem might take place. The same error message may occur again and again.

Root of the issue

As stated in the above error, this problem occurs due to corruption to the Inbox.dbx file or lost Folders.dbx file. Because of the same, Microsoft Outlook Express can not retrieve data and thus you come across data loss situations. This situation require you to carry out Outlook Express Recovery by fixing the issue.

To retrieve data in such situations, you need to repair and restore the damaged DBX files. This is potential through powerful and advanced third party Outlook Express Repair applications. These applications have interactive and simple graphical user interface to provide you ease of use. With read only and non destructive design, these software always perform safe Outlook Express Repair.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is the most comprehensive and robust tool to repair and restore DBX files of Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0, 5.5, 5.01 and 5.0. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and 2000. This software can repair DBX files on all types of storage media.