Proposal to add .msg import/parsing capabilities
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Description
Proposal to add .msg import capabilities into import_email.py (or another appropriate module). At this point, Outlook .msg files (in their binary format) cannot be parsed for relevant attributes - however, .eml files can be parsed effectively.
A solution currently exists for parsing .msg files (https://github.com/mattgwwalker/msg-extractor) but it is not able to parse embedded .msg files. I propose creating a new module for dealing with this issue, and then converging with import_email.py when a reliable solution exists.
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Research direction
Start with import_email.py and compare its existing .eml parsing with the proposed msg-extractor approach. Investigate how embedded .msg files are represented and whether a reliable solution can parse them. Done means .msg files, including embedded messages, can be parsed for relevant attributes and integrated with import_email.py.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100