RE: DBX with Compression

From: Joerg Over Dexia <over(at)dexia.de>
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 15:18:10 EDT

Am 11:58 07.07.2003 -0300 teilte Domingo Montanaro mir folgendes mit:
->The problem is that these files (DBX) were being used normally
by the
->desktop user with Outlook Express. I have tried all the tools
available
->(all of them) to view the DBX contents without success.
sent you
->and a lot of garbage (like compressed or encrypted data).
sent to
->the list.
files, and
->nothing. Also I've used the InnerMedia® Unzip Components to do
this job
->and the error message is like "Zip file structure invalid".
be some
->kind of Outlook plugin that compress the DBX files and
decompress in
->Run-Time.

<snip>

I'd rather believe that mails and attachments, among those some zipped, have been placed in a .dbx structure. The reason unzip fails would be the .dbx hull, then. So you'll have to peel the zips out of the dbx structure. You might use a perl Module (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-Box/MANIFEST) for that, or a tool like Dbxconv (http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html), also mind Ansgar Wiechers' post on that topic. I'd believe you could then unzip the extracted files.
Only guessing here, though; never did that myself.

Greetings, jo

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