Python program to open Outlook *.msg files without needing an Outlook install
I wrote this script to open Outlook format files on my Ubuntu Linux computer.
It utilizes a few other project that were written to read Microsoft OLE2 files,
and one that extracts the Outlook-specific text in particular.
--- INSTALLATION ---
Extract the python files into a directory
Install python-tk ie: sudo apt-get install python-tk
--- RUNNING ---
From the command-line run:
python ViewMsg.py
Script optionally takes in a command-line parameter of the file name
python ViewMsg.py filename.msg
--- FUTURES ---
The script and user-interface uses the easygui module, which is basic GUI examples.
Work will be done to convert this to a more modern-looking text window.