recovering messages from windows mail (win 8)

[builder22]

I initially used windows mail when i installed windows 8, set up my email accounts, recieved a few messages but then uninstalled the program as i started using windows live mail

is there any way of getting back the messages that i recieved in Windows Mail? a.dbx file or something ?

I have reinstalled Windows <ail but there are no messages there from when I first used it after upgrading windows

 

[charsi]

Win 8 mail app stores the emails as .eml files. These are located for me in ..
C:\Users\xxxxxx\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_xxxxxx\LocalState\Indexed\LiveComm\[email protected]\120510-2203\Mail\65\1d000066

The xxxx part of the path will be different for you depending upon your windows login and email account.
Just import the eml files there to any program you are using currently.