BDP Converter

Extract text from BDP files

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How to extract text from your BDP file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BDP file.
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Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BDP to another file type

To convert your BDP file to another format, you need Microsoft Exchange Server or other System software.

Convert a file to BDP

To convert other file formats to the "Server Log File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Exchange Server or a similar tool.

About BDP files

The .BDP file extension is primarily associated with Microsoft IIS SMTP Service and Microsoft Exchange Server as a Badmail queue file or Backup Data File. These files are typically generated automatically by the server when an email cannot be delivered or requires diagnostic logging.

The Problem: Because .BDP files are server-generated system files, they are not designed for human readability or standard desktop software. They often contain a mix of binary headers and text-based log data, making them inaccessible to standard text editors or email clients like Microsoft Outlook. Users typically encounter these files when troubleshooting server issues, attempting to recover lost emails from a queue, or analyzing exchange diagnostics.

The Solution:

For Inspection: Convert the file to TXT or open it with a hex viewer to analyze the diagnostic headers and failure reasons.
For Data Recovery: If the file contains message data, attempting to parse it into an EML format may allow for partial recovery of the email content, though success depends on the specific serialization used by the Exchange version.
For Archiving: Save as LOG files to maintain a record of server errors without keeping the obscure .BDP format.

Convert.Guru analyzes your BDP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted PNG, PDF, DAT, EDB and XNK files.

FAQ

If you want to convert BDP file to TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES, TEX, LATEX, MD, MARKDOWN, LOG or NFO, you can use Microsoft Exchange Server or similar software from the "Email Queue Management" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to BDP, try Microsoft Exchange Server or another comparable tool in the "Email Queue Management" category.

The BDP Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BDP converter.