How Read an Outlook Message File

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jagdpanther · Post by **jagdpanther** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:12 pm

I was sent a mail.msg file and can't figure out how to open it on my Gentoo system. According to 'file' the file is:
CDFV2 Microsoft Outlook Message

How do I read this file on my Gentoo box?

The only thing I found that may work work is:
https://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:28 pm

Maybe Thunderbird or Evolution would know how to import it?

jagdpanther · Post by **jagdpanther** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:04 pm

Maybe Thunderbird or Evolution would know how to import it?

I use Thunderbird and it would not import the file.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Princess Nell · Post by **Princess Nell** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:09 pm

MSGViewer works, although I haven't used it on Gentoo.

I *think* msgconvert works as I wouldn't have it installed otherwise. I have an ebuild for Email-Outlook-Message but don't remember if I downloaded it from somewhere or hacked it together myself. Hhm, the description is totally wrong, so I'm probably to blame for it ... here's a version with fixed description, and I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's legal toes here wrt copyright. It's goes into /usr/local/portage/dev-perl/Email-Outlook-Message.

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# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=6

DIST_AUTHOR=MVZ
DIST_VERSION=0.919
inherit perl-module

DESCRIPTION="Read Outlook .msg files"

SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 ~arm hppa ppc ppc64 x86 ~x86-solaris"
IUSE=""

RDEPEND="
	virtual/perl-Carp
	>=dev-perl/Email-MIME-1.923
	>=dev-perl/Email-MIME-ContentType-1.014
	>=dev-perl/Email-Sender-1.3
	>=dev-perl/Email-Simple-2.206
	virtual/perl-Encode
	dev-perl/IO-All
	dev-perl/IO-String
	>=dev-perl/OLE-StorageLite-0.14
	>=dev-perl/Module-Build-0.38
"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
"