All-in-one viewer to browse your .msg and .eml files. Support for files from Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Gmail, Apple Mail, Windows Mail and etc.
MSG Viewer Portable Version (.zip) - No installation required
If you can't preview .msg or .eml files in Windows Explorer, MSG Viewer makes it easy to open, read, and reply to messages without Outlook. View, search, and organize all your emails, contacts, and attachments just like in Outlook:
MSG Viewer’s search box is a powerful tool to help you search content and attachments of your email files. In addition to searching for different words, phrases and date range, advanced search allows you to use various boolean operators, punctuation and keywords to narrow your search results.
MSG Viewer for Outlook provides you with a number of built-in search filters. To use the built-in filters, right click on the column header and select Filtering. Based on your preference, you can use Advanced Search and built-in search filters at the same time.
Learn MoreAny properties that are present on the Message object, including Attachment objects, are also present in the MSG file.
MSG specifies five storage elements, each representing one major component of the Message object and a number of streams are contained within those storages, each stream representing a property (or a set of properties) of that component.
The storages are: Recipient object storage, Attachment object storage, Embedded Message object storage, Custom attachment storage, Named property mapping storage.
Learn MoreStep 1: Launch MSG EML Viewer for Outlook and select the folder with the email files in the Navigation pane.
Processor: | Intel-compatible (x86, x64) |
Memory: | 1 GB minimum (4 GB recommended) |
Hard Disk: | 50 MB for installation files |
Operating System: | Microsoft® Windows 11 / 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 |
Prerequisites: | Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later |
There are a few ways you can search content and attachments of MSG and EML files. Instant search, Built-in filters and Advanced boolean search helps you quickly find emails in .msg and .eml files without Outlook.
Sort, arrange and group your email files and messages in a way that's helpful to you. For example, group by the name of the sender or the recipient and sort by the date of the email message, its size, and other options.
This guide explains boolean search operators, functions and wildcards (AND, OR, NOT, ALL, ATLEASTONE, NEITHER, NOTALL, ?, *)