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How Do I Open MSG File in Thunderbird?

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I want to open my MSG files in Thunderbird, but with attachments. I have received a large number of MSG files that are so large in size, and my main problem is that I want all of those files in my Thunderbird. Manually doing that took a lot of time plus in some files, attachments were not supported. Any reliable way to open .msg in Thunderbird?

I want to open my MSG files in Thunderbird, but with attachments. I have received a large number of MSG files that are so large in size, and my main problem is that I want all of those files in my Thunderbird. Manually doing that took a lot of time plus in some files, attachments were not supported. Any reliable way to open .msg in Thunderbird?

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Have you tried the msg viewer, downloadable from https://www.freeviewer.org/msg/ ? That may fit your need, but it seems unusual (to me) that people are sending msg files. Good luck.

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david said

Have you tried the msg viewer, downloadable from https://www.freeviewer.org/msg/ ? That may fit your need, but it seems unusual (to me) that people are sending msg files. Good luck.

No, I have used this one, and I got stuck. I have very large MSG files, and this way didn't work. But thank you.

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Which is the format of your message files?

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Are you trying to read .msg messages that people have sent you as attachments or stored in some other way on disk? Or could you get these messages by having Thunderbird connect with your Outlook account?

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I guess there are outlook message files. They are a proprietary file format. The internet abounds with products that purport to convert MSG to EML. That would be the best approach find a converter that does the necessary conversions.

The google AI offered a few free online sources.

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