Hi. I use Netscape's email utility with Netscape 7.1. I recently had a
hard drive crash. I kept all my Netscape email in a folder on my C
drive named "mail." Almost all of the files on the hard drive were
recovered -- including older inbox and sent files that I had archived
in the "mail" folder -- but my most recent inbox and sent files
containing important and not-yet-backed-up email were missing in the
"mail" folder. I searched through all recovered files regardless of
name or location and none of them were the missing inbox or sent
files. What was recovered in my "mail" folder were the most recent
inbox.msf and sent.msf files. My question is whether the data in the
inbox.msf and sent.msf files can be used to initiate a recovery search
on the hard drive to recover my lost inbox and sent files?

I might be wrong, but I don't think so... I just took a look at an msf
file on my computer, and it seems to only store the headers - who the
email is to and from and the subject - but no message content.