read .msg file with java mail api ..pls suggest me

Question

I am trying to read .MSG file from local system in java application using Java mail API itself. i searched on it but suggesting some other libraries to use.

Answer 1

edit 20-12-2019: the email conversion logic has been moved to a dedicated open source library: outlook-message-parser (the EmailConverter class in Simple Java Mail is still there as well).

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original answer: Simple Java Mail, an open source library for sending emails over SMTP has an EmailConverter class that can read and convert Outlook messages directly to MimeMessage, Email or EML.

Under the hood it uses a fork of msgparser (Outlook Message Parser), which on its turn uses Apache POI.

From the Features page:

// from Outlook .msg
Email email =             EmailConverter.outlookMsgToEmail(readToString("yourMessage.msg"));
Email email =             EmailConverter.outlookMsgToEmail(new File("yourMessage.msg"));
Email email =             EmailConverter.outlookMsgToEmail(getInputStream("yourMessage.msg"));
String eml =              EmailConverter.outlookMsgToEML(readToString("yourMessage.msg"));
String eml =              EmailConverter.outlookMsgToEML(new File("yourMessage.msg"));
String eml =              EmailConverter.outlookMsgToEML(getInputStream("yourMessage.msg"));
MimeMessage mimeMessage = EmailConverter.outlookMsgToMimeMessage(readToString("yourMessage.msg"));
MimeMessage mimeMessage = EmailConverter.outlookMsgToMimeMessage(new File("yourMessage.msg"));
MimeMessage mimeMessage = EmailConverter.outlookMsgToMimeMessage(getInputStream("yourMessage.msg"));

Answer 2

if you are looking to parse Outlook .msg files then msgparser is small open source java library it provide the content using java objects it use Apache POI for parsing the files.