Is there a content plugin for msg files ? (similar to eml_new)

[funkymonk]

Hi Community.

Is there a content plugin to extract meta data from email msg files (similar to eml_new)?

@author_of_eml_new: Will msg files be supported by a future version of your plugin?

thx
funkymonk

[patxiku]

Hi, funkymonk

When you refer to extract meta data and eml_new content plugin (wdx), perhaps you are considering a kind o filtering, showing or sorting columns?

Can you explain more?

Bye. Patxiku

[zhugecaomao]

Hi Community.

Is there a content plugin to extract meta data from email msg files (similar to eml_new)?

@author_of_eml_new: Will msg files be supported by a future version of your plugin?

thx
funkymonk

maybe you can try uLister, uLister is a powerful document viewer which can open more than 500 file formats. .msg & .eml are supported

[funkymonk]

Thank you!

However, my request is not about viewing email msg files.

I am searching for a *content* plugin that allows me to extract meta data (like sender/from, receiver/to, subject, send date, etc.) for creating custom columns or for use in the multi rename tool.

[CoolWater]

This should be quite easy to develop using the MapiMail API. It is capable to read msg files and extract the needed information.

[hi5]

If I'm not mistaken (don't have a msg at hand) these are "just text files" and you should be able to use a scripting language of your choice (vbs, python, AutoHotkey) to read some data from them using WinScript Advanced - viewtopic.php?t=44032

[Horst.Epp]

If I'm not mistaken (don't have a msg at hand) these are "just text files" and you should be able to use a scripting language of your choice (vbs, python, AutoHotkey) to read some data from them using WinScript Advanced - viewtopic.php?t=44032

Thats a wrong assumption.
There is no simply readable text in an msg file.

[hi5]

That is why I "wrote it in quotes" - they are peculiar format - but I opened in the past for sure in my actual text editor and saw the message body text and some data I needed - I see (Google results) VBS (using COM, AutoHotkey can use COM as well) and python code (https://github.com/TeamMsgExtractor/msg-extractor "The python package extract_msg automates the extraction of key email data (from, to, cc, date, subject, body) and the email's attachments") so one way or another these can be processed I'm sure which is why I suggested WinScript Advanced as option to investigate.

There are also convertors that convert MSG to EML, so if that is an option, do that first if that would help (eml is text)

[funkymonk]

Thank you all.

The msg files I have seen so far are not plain text files (and conversion to another format would be impractical for the use case).
Well, maybe a script can help indeed...