{"id":156,"date":"2012-04-18T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2013-06-11T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:54:10","slug":"a-free-viewer-for-microsoft-outlook-msg-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/a-free-viewer-for-microsoft-outlook-msg-files\/","title":{"rendered":"A Free Viewer for Microsoft Outlook .msg Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my day job<\/a> I ran into a situation where one of my users needed to read the contents of a bunch of .msg files. We use Google Apps and don’t have Microsoft Outlook installed anywhere, so this was a bit of a problem. I hate slogging into the seedy world of Microsoft shareware, but after a quick search of my Linux tools that’s where I ended up.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, I eventually found a free cross-platform viewer for these Microsoft Outlook .msg files so I thought I’d share it with the Internet. Hopefully someone will stumble on this post and won’t have to download crippled trialware or risk viral infections from seedy software sites.<\/p>\n

The aptly-named MSGViewer<\/a> is what worked for me. It’s a Java webstart application, so it’s cross-platform. However it did not run on Java7; I had to downgrade to Java6 to get it to work.<\/del> It is lacking print functionality, but you can copy and paste the email contents to something else if you need to print it.<\/p>\n

[Update]
\nI haven’t had to use it in a long time, but some of the comments below indicate that it now works with Java7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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