Introduction Parsing email messages programmatically is a common requirement for data migration, archival workflows, and compliance tools. Outlook MSG files use the Compound File Binary (CFB) container format with MAPI properties to encode message metadata, body content, recipients, and attachments. Working with this format in Python has traditionally required either commercial libraries or low-level binary manipulation.
The aspose-email-foss package provides a pure-Python, MIT-licensed library for reading, creating, and converting Outlook MSG files. It exposes a high-level MapiMessage API for common tasks alongside lower-level MsgReader access for detailed inspection of the underlying CFB structure. The library requires Python 3.10 or later and has no native dependencies.
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