msg-viewer-with-eml-export/README.md

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.

The module requires Python 3.6 and the compoundfiles package, so first install that:

pip3.6 install compoundfiles

We also rely on our Python 3 port of compressed_rtf, which is included in this repository.

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.