unmsg 0.6.2

Turn Outlook .msg files into clean Markdown, HTML, text, JSON, EML, and PDF.

UnMsg

Turn Outlook .msg files into clean Markdown, HTML, text, JSON, EML, and PDF — with attachments and inline images extracted alongside. Drag, drop, click Convert, done.

UnMsg is a small, friendly desktop app (and CLI) for getting your email out of Outlook's .msg format and into formats you can actually read, search, and keep. Everything happens on your machine — your messages never leave it, and there is no telemetry of any kind.

Why

Every other option is a brittle script, a paid utility, a sketchy web converter that wants your email, or one pip install away from being your problem. UnMsg is the thing you can install in two minutes and use forever.

Status

v0.6.0 — the 1.0 polish step. The public Python API is now stable, the project has a documentation site, CI runs on Ubuntu/Windows/macOS, and the test suite covers ≥ 90% of the code. The Windows installer is still unsigned for one more release — SmartScreen will warn on first run; if you'd rather not click past that, the docs explain how to build the installer yourself. v1.0.0 ships when the installer is code‑signed.

Documentation

Full docs — getting started, CLI reference, desktop app guide, the privacy statement, and the auto‑generated API reference — live at dog-broad.github.io/unmsg (built from docs/).

Planned features

• Drag-and-drop .msg files and folders
• Convert to Markdown, HTML, single-file HTML, plain text, JSON metadata, EML, and PDF/PDF-A
• Extract attachments and inline images, with cid: references rewritten
• Predictable, sortable output folders ({date}_{subject} by default)
• A scriptable CLI and a small Python API
• Deterministic output and per-batch manifests for archiving
• Fully offline. No accounts, no uploads, no analytics — ever.

License

MIT.