How do I view an Outlook .msg file?

I need to view a .msg file. It is an email from Microsoft Outlook. How can I do this in Ubuntu?

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8 Answers

Building on Martin Owens answer, this is the quick solution:

wget
sudo apt-get install libemail-outlook-message-perl libemail-localdelivery-perl libemail-sender-perl
perl msgconvert.pl YourMessage.msg

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Looks like the best thing to do is to convert them to an eml file using this script:

It's not pretty, it's not gui based, but it'll work.

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Open it with MsgViewer

wget -O MSGViewer.zip
unzip MSGViewer.zip
cd MSGViewer-1.9
java -jar MSGViewer.jar

now, just drag'n'drop the msg file to the program window to have its contents displayed.

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I am on Ubuntu 15.10 and matijs'es msgconvert script seems to be available in the repos now. after running:

sudo apt-get install libemail-outlook-message-perl libemail-localdelivery-perl libemail-sender-perl

I can now now run

msgconvert *.msg

to convert the messages entirely with tools from the repos.

I found after install msgconvert that msgconvert wasn't installed when I ran the command. Rather than faff about trying to debug it, I did this. Done in less than a minute.

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You can use ruby-msg ruby gem for that purposes. So:

1. Install ruby and rubygems:

   # apt-get install rubygems gem

2. Install the gem:

   # gem install ruby-msg

3. Then use the "mapitool" utility:

   $ mapitool -i test.msg

   In some cases you can sporadically get the exception:

   /usr/local/share/gems/gems/ruby-msg-1.5.2/lib/mapi/mime.rb:109:in `join': incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)

   So just fix the following file lib/mapi/mime.rb with the following regexp:

   sed 's/part.to_s(opts)/part.to_s(opts).encode("UTF-8", :invalid=>:replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "")/' -i /usr/local/share/gems/gems/ruby-msg-1.5.2/lib/mapi/mime.rb

With SeaMonkey program, Link please see below:

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You can try using an online viewer such as:

It displays the .msg message, provides download links for the attachments, shows the headers, and converts the file to .eml.