| Microsoft Outlook is a popular and widely used email | | | | You may face this behavior if any of the below |
| client, which is a part of Microsoft Office Suite of | | | | conditions are true: |
| Products. It stores all your critical emails and other | | | | 1.You have set a PST file as the default delivery |
| information in a single file, known as PST (Personal | | | | location for your emails or you're using OST (Offline |
| Storage Table) file. Under some circumstances, the | | | | Storage Table) file. |
| PST file of your Microsoft Outlook application gets | | | | 2.You forward an email in MS Outlook RTF (Rich |
| damaged and you can not access stored data from | | | | Text Format), which has an attachment. |
| it. Corruption is indicated by a number of symptoms | | | | 3.You have enabled Outlook messages to be stored |
| and error messages. In the event of PST corruption, | | | | in Drafts either by clicking Save option in File menu or |
| you need to repair and restore the damaged file | | | | waiting for three minutes. |
| using PST Recovery Software to extract inaccessible | | | | 4.You alter messages after saving a copy in Drafts |
| information from the file. | | | | folder. |
| In a practical scenario, you may come across the | | | | 5.You attempt to save or send message by clicking |
| below error message, when you try to open a mail | | | | the Save option. |
| message or try to forward any message in MS | | | | 6.The PST file is damaged. |
| Outlook 2000: | | | | Solution |
| "The messaging interface has returned an unknown | | | | Microsoft has provided a hotfix to sort out this |
| error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook." | | | | problem. You can download it from Microsoft's |
| After the above error, you can not extract | | | | website and install it to resolve the issue. |
| information from the PST file. In order to access | | | | In case problem is caused by the PST file corruption, |
| your data, you need to identify the cause of this | | | | hotfix can not help you sort it out. At this point, you |
| behavior and perform PST File Recovery by fixing it. | | | | need to use commercial PST Recovery Tool to repair |
| Grounds of the problem | | | | and restore damaged file. |