Deliverance

Deliverance is a free, open-source library for reading and (eventually) writing .MSG files in the .NET Framework.

It is a 100% managed library that makes it easy to deal with “structured storage” Outlook files without having to use COM libraries.

Status

Deliverance can get the following properties from an MSG file:

• Recipients
• From Address and Display name
• Subject
• Plain-text body
• HTML body
• Attachments

Building

Clone the project, open and build the solution in Visual Studio.

Using

The following code snippet will show an example of how to use this library:

MsgFile msg = new MsgFile();
msg.Load(filePath);
Console.WriteLine("From Address: {0}", msg.Recipients[0].EmailAddress);
Console.WriteLine("From Name: {0}", msg.Recipients[0].DisplayName);
Console.WriteLine("Recipient Type: {0}", msg.Recipients[0].RecipientType);
Console.WriteLine("From: {0} ({1})", msg.FromName, msg.FromAddress);
Console.WriteLine("Subject: {0}", msg.Subject);
Console.WriteLine("Body: {0}", msg.Body);
Console.WriteLine("Attachment name: {0}", msg.Attachments[0].FileName);

Dependencies

The following third-party libraries are used:

• OpenMCDF 2.0 (http://openmcdf.sourceforge.net/) MPL 2.0
• NUnit 2.6.4 (http://www.nunit.org/) NUnit License
• Crc32 (http://damieng.com/blog/2006/08/08/calculating_crc32_in_c_and_net) Apache 2.0

License

Deliverance is licensed under the MIT License.