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Bill Weiss
Asked: 2011-11-17 15:30:41 +0800 CST

How can I extract email (in a PST) from an Exchange 2007 EDB file?

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I've got a hard drive image of an Exchange 2007 machine that had some mail I'd like access to. Is there a tool to pull the email out of the EDBs in a format I can read easily? A PST would be good, or an mbox, whatever.

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  1. We ended up using SysTools Exchange Recovery, which worked ok. "Worked ok" is "got the email out". Was it better than the other options? No idea, but the price (~$300) was better than getting the professionals in :)

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  2. Best Answer

    If you have a Ex2007 box around you can mount the DB and use the export-mailbox powershell. If you don't have this running already, it would be a lot of work just to extract the e-mail.

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  3. If you are able to mount the EDB file then you can use Export-Mailbox Command, here is full command:

    Export-Mailbox -Identity [email protected] -PSTFolderPath C:\Users\Exporter\Desktop\source.pst

    If EDB file is offline then you need to use third party tools. Ontrack, Stellar Converter for EDB, quest , many tools are available.

    You can check following links for more information:

    https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/32640-how-to-export-mailboxes-to-pst-files-in-exchange-2007

    https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2211539-how-do-i-export-mailboxes-from-exchange-2007-to-pst-format

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