How to open mail saved with pst. extension on personal computer?

[Diane]

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]

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]

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?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

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.

 

[wangdong]

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/

wd