Microsoft Outlook is a great e-mail client that is used to send and receive e-mails for both professional and personal purposes. As a result, its data file, which is PST (Personal Storage Folder), gets piled up with thousands of e-mails sent or received from different category of users. It might contain e-mails from various important business clients along with e-mails associated with friends and family members. Currently, there is no automated utility in Microsoft Outlook, which might help you extract required e-mails and hence, you need to Split PST on the basis of required e-mail IDs (however, manual archiving is possible).
For more clarification, let’s consider a realistic case of an Outlook user. The user configures Microsoft Outlook to use an account, which he/she uses for different purposes. Since the local storage file for Outlook is PST, all e-mails received or sent from his/her office colleagues, manager, out-of-office friends, relatives, and customers are stored in the same file. These e-mails are so unmanaged that it is practically impossible to separate them and then archive them in a different PST file.
Now, the Outlook user falls in a situation, when he/she needs to slice the PST file in a manner that the PST contains only the e-mails that have been sent or received from some specific professional e-mail IDs. Deleting the personal e-mails is not an option as the user requires them for other purposes.
In situations like above, an Outlook user can either archive the PST file or use a PST File Splitter. But when the PST file size is large with hundreds of personal and professional e-mail IDs, it may not be possible to archive the file manually. So, the best option is to Split Large PST File using a third-party application.
However, before choosing an application to Split PST File, you should verify if the software can divide the file on the basis of e-mail ID. At present, there are very few utilities that support this feature. To do so, you can read the official websites of the Split PST Software, where all the software features are listed.
One of the best PST File Splitter software that splits the PST file on the basis of e-mail IDs is Stellar Phoenix PST File Splitter. This tool supports Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000 and allows you to select required e-mail IDs for splitting the file.