What is the best library to read Outlook.msg files in Java?

Question

I would like to read text and binary attachments in a saved Outlook message (.msg file) from a Java application without resorting to my own code (JNI, Java Native Interface).

Apache POI-HSMF seems to be in the right direction, but in the very early stages of development ...

Answer 1

• You can use Apache POIFS, which seems a bit more mature, but this seems to duplicate the efforts of the POI-HSMF.

• You can use the POI-HSMF and make changes to get the features you need. This is often how FOSS projects expand.

• com4j, j-Interop COM- COM , . , JNI.

Answer 2

msgparser - Java , Outlook.msg Java. msgparser Apache POI - POIFS , OLE 2 Compound Document.

Answer 3

Jython win32 Python (http://www.jython.org/Project/ + http://python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/)? "" "" , Jython Python . , .

Answer 4

Apache POI-HSMF.

You can start with the example below. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/poi/trunk/src/scratchpad/examples/src/org/apache/poi/hsmf/examples/Msg2txt.java?revision=821500&view=markup&pathrev=821500

Further read library documents.