I depend on email in a lot of ways, Subsim being part of it. I've always liked the power of an email program, but it seems MS would at least put in a small "Engine Hot" marker to warn the user when something critical is about to kill the program.
I got this
PST Recovery program and it seems to be what I needed to bring my email back to life.

Now to trim the fat a little and archive all those 1990's emails