Outlook .msg file reader

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

[snip: outlook .msg files]

>now I want a simple stand-alone reader, which I can burn on the cd as well
>so I can view the contents of it without requiring Outlook. If it can search
>the contents, that would even be better!

Linux 'file' command reports the .msg files as "Microsoft Office
Documents" (and truly the file starts with the D0 CF bytes); try using
some OLE2 structured file library to open the files, and search the
internal tree of streams; one of them quite possibly will be the message
in message/rfc822 (ie plain text) format (I see it with a hex editor);
you can manage it message with Python's email library.

I wouldn't bet that the attachments will be included in the
message/rfc822 format, though... I have no data, but this is just a
hunchl; I assume they will be stored as separate streams, but ICBW.
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