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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similar question: askubuntu.com/questions/282691/… – DJCrashdummy Oct 14 '16 at 12:19
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At least with Thunderbird(45.8.0)->Open File it displays somewhat readable. – math Oct 17 '17 at 8:53
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1check this Answer for this issue: superuser.com/a/1472788/880537 – Akhil Surapuram Aug 19 '19 at 8:15
Looks like the best thing to do is to convert them to an eml file using this script:
http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/
It's not pretty, it's not gui based, but it'll work.
answered Feb 5 '11 at 4:38
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1After installing the script as indicated (cpan -i Email::Outlook::Message) found a quick way to call it: creating a "Nautilus Script" with: #!/bin/bash for arg do msgconvert "$arg" done – Stefano Sep 30 '14 at 7:28
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2I can install this on my computer with
sudo apt install libemail-outlook-message-perland then justmsgconvert xyz.msgand I get axyz.emlfile – Jayen Feb 20 '19 at 10:56
Building on Martin Owens answer, this is the quick solution:
wget http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/msgconvert.pl
sudo apt-get install libemail-outlook-message-perl libemail-localdelivery-perl libemail-sender-perl
perl msgconvert.pl YourMessage.msg
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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.
Open it with MsgViewer http://sourceforge.net/projects/msgviewer/
wget -O MSGViewer.zip http://sourceforge.net/projects/msgviewer/files/latest/download
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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MSGViewer is a nice program, but I found that the viewer wouldn't open an attached .PDF file within the .MSG file. It appeared to change the filename to something that it couldn't find. – Mr Ed Apr 25 '16 at 7:21
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This works nicely. However I have some problems with the encoding of non ASCI mails (in my case Greek). Do you happen to know if there is any setting for this. – Bruni Jun 22 '16 at 16:22
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This works with Java 8. Java 11, that I tried with first, removed the java activation framework this uses and so no longer works without some extra effort to use the replacement github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jaf – jwd630 Oct 16 '18 at 1:49
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Opening attached files (e.g. PDF files) worked fine for me after changing the
OpenCommandfromkde-opentoxdg-open(MSGViewer setting). – nspo Sep 20 '19 at 14:43
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. http://www.zamzar.com/convert/msg-to-pdf/
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I converted from .MSG to .EML, and the attachments come through correctly. The .EML files was openable with Thunderbird. – Mr Ed Apr 25 '16 at 7:22
You can use ruby-msg ruby gem for that purposes. So:
Install ruby and rubygems:
# apt-get install rubygems gemInstall the gem:
# gem install ruby-msgThen use the "mapitool" utility:
$ mapitool -i test.msgIn 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: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
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.
