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I need to read some Microsoft Outlook MSG file in pure C code. What I need is a library that doesn't depend on any particular framework (.NET, Java, etc), so a library/class/set of functions completely written in C.

pnuts
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Well, if you're okay with MFC or ATL (which would be C++), you should take a look at this article. Also, the format is described in detail here.

What you'll essentially be doing is reading the nodes which have information in ASCII text format, which boils down to the __substg1.0_xxxxxxxx nodes ending with 001E.

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  • Thank you for your response, but what I'm looking for is something that doesn't depend on MFC and ATL, so I need a pure C library with no references to any system library function such as StgOpenStorage and so on. Anyway I think I have found something useful on another post here: [link]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9886727/getting-outlook-msg-file-contents-with-objective-c?rq=1[/link] where a user suggests to use a library called POLE to read the structure, so I think I'll try to start using this. – Gianluca Jan 09 '14 at 16:07