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Author: Vikram Arsid

Requires Python: >=3.4

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Development Status

2 - Pre-Alpha

Topic

Communications

Intended Audience

Developers

License

OSI Approved :: BSD License

Natural Language

English

Programming Language

Python :: 3
Python :: 3.4
Python :: 3.5
Python :: 3.6
Python :: 3.7
Python :: Implementation :: CPython

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Python module for parsing outlook msg files.

Free software: BSD license
Documentation: https://msg-parser.readthedocs.io.

Features

Parse MSG file.
Convert MSG file to EML file.
Output MSG file as JSON string.
Handles nested MSG/EML attachments.
Works 100% on Linux machines, do not require any windows libraries.

Installation

Basic installation
```
pip install msg_parser
```
With RTF decompression
```
pip install msg_parser[rtf]
```

Usage

Run CLI command

$ msg_parser --help
  usage: msg_parser [-h] -i FILE [-j] [-e EML_FILE]

 Microsoft Message Parser

 optional arguments:
     -h, --help            show this help message and exit
     -i FILE, --input FILE
                           msg file path
     -j, --json            output parsed msg as json to console
     -e EML_FILE, --eml EML_FILE
                           provide email file path to save as eml file.

Import in python modules

from msg_parser import MsOxMessage

msg_obj = MsOxMessage(msg_file_path)

json_string = msg_obj.get_message_as_json()

msg_properties_dict = msg_obj.get_properties()

saved_path = msg_obj.save_email_file(output_eml_file_path)