[J. Owens]

I have a user that needs to open an attachment that has a .msg extension in
Outlook Express. It does make reference to it being an Outlook file, but he
does not have MS Office on his pc. I have looked in the knowledge base and
haven't found any way to open this file. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Jody

[Jim Pickering]

Your best bet, without having Outlook installed, is to contact the sender
and ask them to resend the message via email, using Plain text to format the
info contained in the MSG file. I'm not aware of any utility (other than
having a copy of Eudora installed) that can read a MSG file and I've not
used Eudora to verify that it can read Outlook's MSG files, although it does
use the same file extension for its messages.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"J. Owens" <jowens01@cox.net> wrote in message
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>I have a user that needs to open an attachment that has a .msg extension in
>Outlook Express. It does make reference to it being an Outlook file, but
>he does not have MS Office on his pc. I have looked in the knowledge base
>and haven't found any way to open this file. Does anyone have any
>suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jody
>

[Steve Cochran]

I've looked at msg files, and I think they are some sort of binary compacted
messages that can't be read even with a binary editor.

steve

"Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Your best bet, without having Outlook installed, is to contact the sender
> and ask them to resend the message via email, using Plain text to format
> the info contained in the MSG file. I'm not aware of any utility (other
> than having a copy of Eudora installed) that can read a MSG file and I've
> not used Eudora to verify that it can read Outlook's MSG files, although
> it does use the same file extension for its messages.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=F9F51EF1-4AE3-4D23-B2D8-1171988A62D6
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
> "J. Owens" <jowens01@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:uhTEUmEcFHA.3912@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>I have a user that needs to open an attachment that has a .msg extension
>>in Outlook Express. It does make reference to it being an Outlook file,
>>but he does not have MS Office on his pc. I have looked in the knowledge
>>base and haven't found any way to open this file. Does anyone have any
>>suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Jody
>>
>