Microsoft Outlook is a popular and widely used email client, which is a part of Microsoft Office Suite of Products. It stores all your critical emails and other information in a single file, known as PST (Personal Storage Table) file. Under some circumstances, the PST file of your Microsoft Outlook application gets damaged and you can not access stored data from it. Corruption is indicated by a number of symptoms and error messages. In the event of PST corruption, you need to repair and restore the damaged file using PST Recovery Software to extract inaccessible information from the file.

In a practical scenario, you may come across the below error message, when you try to open a mail message or try to forward any message in MS Outlook 2000:

“The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook.”

After the above error, you can not extract information from the PST file. In order to access your data, you need to identify the cause of this behavior and perform PST File Recovery by fixing it.

Grounds of the problem

You may face this behavior if any of the below conditions are true:

1. You have set a PST file as the default delivery location for your emails or you’re using OST (Offline Storage Table) file.
2. You forward an email in MS Outlook RTF (Rich Text Format), which has an attachment.
3. You have enabled Outlook messages to be stored in Drafts either by clicking Save option in File menu or waiting for three minutes.
4. You alter messages after saving a copy in Drafts folder.
5. You attempt to save or send message by clicking the Save option.
6. The PST file is damaged.

Solution

Microsoft has provided a hotfix to sort out this problem. You can download it from Microsoft’s website and install it to resolve the issue.

In case problem is caused by the PST file corruption, hotfix can not help you sort it out. At this point, you need to use commercial PST Recovery Tool to repair and restore damaged file.

The PST Recovery utilities are capable of methodically scanning whole PST file and extracting all inaccessible and corrupted data from it. With read-only conduct and rich graphical user interface, the software is safe and easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair software repairs and restores corrupted PST file in all cases of corruption. The Recover PST tool restores all PST file objects, such as emails, notes, tasks, contacts, calendar entries, and more. It works well with Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000.