Can this package be used to convert an .msg file to .eml?

[MrYossu]

I have a pile of .msg files, and want to be able to open them on a machine that doesn't have Outlook installed. I'd like to convert them to .eml files. Can your package do that?

Thanks

[Sicos1977]

See the answer in your issue that you opened on MSGReader

[MrYossu]

I asked the question here because I couldn't see how to do it from that answer. You linked to a changeset, but how does that help me read an .msg file and save it as .eml?

Sorry if I missed something, but I couldn't see how to do this from your link.

[MrYossu]

@Sicos1977 OK, I downloaded the source and had a look at the sample project. I see there is a Converter.ConvertMsgToEml method, which looks exactly like what I want, but it just throws a NotImplementedException

So how do I do the conversion?

[Sicos1977]

You need to download the fork from the other person and compile that one. At the moment I'm not behind my laptop anymore. I can help you but that will be tomorrow.

[MrYossu]

@Sicos1977 I did download his fork, and that's the one that threw the exception. Please see this line of code.

If you get chance to help tomorrow I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks

[Sicos1977]

I'll look into it tomorrow. I think his code is complete so don't know why you get that exception because that is something that is coming from my repro

[MrYossu]

@Sicos1977 Thanks

[Sicos1977]

You can get the correct version (with the conversion code) from this link, it seems that he has made a branche that he modified.

https://github.com/BerendHabekotte/MsgKit/tree/US3172_ConvertMsgToEml

Download it as a ZIP, that is what I did and it gave me the code with the MSG to EML conversion

https://github.com/BerendHabekotte/MsgKit/archive/US3172_ConvertMsgToEml.zip

[Sicos1977]

I'll will see if it is something that I can add the the msgreader. I don't want to mix MsgKit and MsgReader like what he did.

[MrYossu]

@Sicos1977 Thanks for that, but the code doesn't work properly. As an experiment, I added the following line into the sample project in one of the button handlers...

Converter.ConvertMsgToEml(@"D:\msgs\355649890.msg", @"D:\msgs\355649890.eml");

This converted the email itself, but all attachments were empty.

I tried this with a few .msg files, and had the same problem with all of them.

Any ideas? Thanks again.

[MrYossu]

@Sicos1977 Not trying to be rude, but did you get chance to look? As I said, the conversion mostly worked, but all the attachments were blank.

Thanks again for your help

[Sicos1977]

You mean you did not have any attachments or when you tried to open them there was nothing in it?

[MrYossu]

@Sicos1977 I can't send any example files as they contain confidential information. However, some screenshots might clarify.

If I open one of these converted files (now saved as .eml), I can see that the attachment is recognised (this is in Thunderbird)...

If I open this, it is blank (this is in the Chromium-based Edge, which is my default PDF viewer)...

If I open a .jpg attachment, I get this...

If I try to view an attached text file, I can open it, but it is just blank lines.

If I save these attachments to disk, they look around the right size, but I guess something has gone wrong with the conversion, and the data has been lost.

Any ideas? Thanks again.

[MrYossu]

Sorry, thought I'd replied to this. I wondered why you hadn't answered!

The message had attachments, and these were of the correct size. A text attachment came out as a blank document, an image was unopenable and a pdf file opened, but was just a blank page.

Does that help? Thanks again

[MrYossu]

Oops, seems I did reply! I wonder why my browser didn't show it until just now. Ho hum.

[MrYossu]

@Sicos1977 Any chance you'd be able to look at this? I really need to get these files converted.

Thanks