How to Open MSG . Files

This is an article that shows you how to view Outlook email files (MSG) on your computer without using Outlook. You can use several online file converters to view and download the MSG file in PDF format with its attachment data.

Table of Contents

Using Zamzar

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Know when to use Zamzar. If you want to download a PDF version of an email with attachments that don’t exceed Outlook’s 20MB limit, Zamzar will help you do this.

Zamzar requires you to have an email address so that they can send you the download link for the email and attachments you need. If you don’t want to provide an email address, try Encryptomatic.

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Open Zamzar. Visit https://www.zamzar.com/convert/msg-to-pdf using your computer’s browser.

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Click Choose Files… . It’s the option in the “Step 1” section (Step 1) in the middle of the page. This will open a File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) window.

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Select the MSG file. You will access the folder where the MSG file is saved, then click on it to select it.

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Click Open . This is the option in the lower right corner of the window. Thus, the MSG file will be uploaded to Zamzar.

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Click the “Convert files to” checkbox in the “Step 2” box (Part 2). This will show you a selection list.

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Click pdf . This is the selection below the “Documents” heading in the selection list.

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Enter your email address. Enter your working email address in the data entry field in the “Step 3” section (Step 3).

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Click Convert . It’s the gray button in the “Step 4” section (Step 4). Zamzar will start converting the MSG file to PDF.

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Open the converted MSG file’s page. Once the file has been converted, Zamzar will send you a confirmation email. Here’s where you find the link to the MSG file’s download page:

Open your email inbox.
Open the email “Converted file from Zamzar” sent by Zamzar.
- Check your Spam folder (and Updates folder if available) in case you don’t see the email after 5 minutes.
Click the long link near the bottom of the email.

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Download the converted PDF file. Click the green Download Now button to the right of the PDF file. The name of the file will be the subject of the email (such as “hello”) followed by “.pdf”.

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Download attached data. If your email has attachment data, you can download it by clicking Download Now next to the ZIP folder named “Attachments”. Thus, the ZIP folder containing the attached data will be downloaded to the computer.

You’ll need to extract the contents of the ZIP folder before you can read or view the email’s attachment data.

Using Encryptomatic

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Know when to use Encryptomatic. If you just want to view emails without downloading them, Encryptomatic will let you do that for emails up to 8MB in size (including attachments). If the email to be processed has data attached, you can load the data from the view page.

The main disadvantage of Encryptomatic is the limited capacity. If you need to download a lot of attachments from MSG files, you’re better off using Zamzar.

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Open Encryptomatic. Visit https://www.encryptomatic.com/viewer/ using your computer’s web browser.

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Click Choose file . It’s the gray button near the top left corner of the page. This will open a File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) window.

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Select the MSG file. You need to go to the folder where the MSG file is saved, and then click on it to select it.

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Click Open . This is the option in the lower right corner of the window. Your MSG file will be uploaded to Encryptomatic.

If you see the message “File is too large” displayed to the right of the Choose file button, you cannot open the MSG file in Encryptomatic. Use Zamzar instead.

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Click View . It’s the button to the right of the Choose file button. This will take you to the viewing page.

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Check email. Drag the scroll bar to the bottom of the page to do this. You’ll see the body of the email along with any images or formatting in this window.

Advice

If your computer has Outlook program, you can open any MSG file in Outlook by double clicking.

Warning

Some images or original format of MSG files will be lost if you download data from Zamzar.

Steps

Using Zamzar

Using Encryptomatic

Advice

Warning

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