Email Message Parsing in .NET with Aspose.Email FOSS
Introduction Parsing email messages programmatically is a common requirement for archival tools, compliance pipelines, and migration utilities. Outlook MSG files use the Compound File Binary (CFB) container format with MAPI property streams, while EML files follow the MIME standard. Both formats require careful handling of encodings, folded headers, and nested attachments. Aspose.Email FOSS for .NET is a free, MIT-licensed C# library that provides a complete read-write API for MSG and EML messages. It targets .NET 8.0+ and has no dependency on Microsoft Outlook or any native COM interop layer. The library is available as the aspose.email.foss NuGet package. ...