Martijn van de Streek
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Non-Unicode strings in .msg files are encoded using an encoding that is defined in a separate message property (PR_INTERNET_CPID for the body, PR_MESSAGE_CODEPAGE for everything else). The specification says that this property is required, however some real world .msg files do not have it. This is why the decoding code has a fallback to "cp1252" (Windows code page 1252, "Western Europe"). fixes #24
Convert Outlook .msg Files to .eml (MIME format)
This repository contains a Python 3.6 module for reading Microsoft Outlook .msg files and converting them to .eml format, which is the standard MIME format for email messages.
Install the dependencies with:
pip3.6 install -r requirements.txt
Then either convert a single file by piping:
python3.6 outlookmsgfile.py < message.msg > message.eml
Or convert a set of files:
python3.6 outlookmsgfile.py *.msg
When passing filenames as command-line arguments, a new file with .eml
appended to the filename is written out with the message in MIME format.
To use it in your application
import outlookmsgfile
eml = outlookmsgfile.load('my_email_sample.msg')
The load() function returns an EmailMessage instance.