extract-msg 0.51.1

The extract-msg Python package is a tool for extracting emails and attachments from Microsoft Outlook's .msg files. It automates the extraction of key email data and supports Python 3.8 and above. With its customization options, it's useful for data extraction and analysis from .msg files.

The package provides the command line tool extract_msg that can be used to extract attachments and parse date, time, and subject of the message. Email and attachments are extracted into a folder

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The TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor repo was created 11 years ago and the last code push was Yesterday.
The project is popular with 734 github stars!

How to Install extract-msg

You can install extract-msg using pip

pip install extract-msg

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add extract-msg

Package Details

Author

Destiny Peterson & Matthew Walker

License

GPL

Homepage

https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/extract-msg/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor

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Errors

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Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The extract-msg package has 14 open issues on GitHub

• Typo in command-line argument parsing
• Add method to generate htmlBody from rtfBody.
• Signed messages only show one attachment, the smime.p7m file itself
• Handle long file paths, expecially for deeply embeded MSG files.
• Saving file attachments
• Add property to grab the HTML body that is ready for conversion to PDF.

See more issues on GitHub