On a PC without Outlook
Choose the .msg or .eml file on this page, or drag it here from File Explorer. The email opens in this tab, and each attached file has a Save button.
Open MSG and EML files online, without Outlook
See an Outlook .msg, .eml or Apple Mail .emlx email on a Mac, a PC without Outlook, or a phone: the sender, recipients, date, message and attachments. It opens in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and remote images and tracking pixels are never loaded.See a .msg, .eml or .emlx email and save its attachments, on a computer or phone with a current browser. Nothing is uploaded, and tracking pixels are never loaded.
- Nothing uploaded
- No Outlook needed
- Tracking pixels blocked
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Outlook .msg, .eml and Apple Mail .emlx, one or a few at a time.
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How to open an email file without Outlook
On a Mac
Choose the file here, or drag it from Finder onto this page. Apple Mail opens .eml files but not Outlook’s .msg files; this page opens both, and Apple Mail’s .emlx files too.
On an iPhone or iPad
The file has to be in the Files app. If it came as an email attachment, touch and hold it in Mail, choose Share, then Save to Files. Then tap Choose email files here and pick it.
Source: Apple iPhone User Guide (attachments in Mail)
On an Android phone
Tap Choose email files and pick the file, usually from Downloads, where files you save from your email app go.
What you see
- The header: who sent it, when (with the UTC offset, in your time zone), and every recipient, each with its address when the email has one.
- The message with its formatting, tables and colours, and the pictures that travel inside the email.
- The attached files, each with a Save button. An attached email opens in the viewer too, and a meeting invite is summed up: what, when, where and who.
- Every web and email link, with the address it really goes to, in a list under the message. Links don’t open from the message itself.
- Save as PDF: one PDF of the email with its attachments added, made in your browser by the same engine as our converter.
Is it safe to open an email file here?
Email files can be hostile. Phishing and spam carry scripts, forms, look-alike links and tracking pixels that tell the sender when and where an email was opened. The viewer keeps all of that away from you:
- Nothing is uploaded. The file is read from your device by this tab, and the page’s security policy tells your browser to block any connection a script on the page tries to open, to any server, ours included. The only requests are for the viewer’s own program files from this site, and they carry nothing of yours.
- Scripts never run. Before anything is shown, scripts, forms, frames and embedded objects are removed by the same rules our converter uses for its PDFs, and the message is shown in a sandboxed frame that isn’t allowed to run scripts at all.
- Remote images and tracking pixels are never loaded. Only pictures that travel inside the email are shown, and the viewer says how many it left out.
- Links never open by themselves. They are listed under the message with the site each one really goes to, and marked when the text shows a different address, when the address uses letters outside A–Z (which can imitate a familiar name), or when the real site hides after an @.
- Attachments never open by themselves. You choose to save them, or to show an attached email here, just as safely. Files that can run code when opened, such as programs, web pages and documents that can carry macros, are marked.
Check it yourself
This page carries a security policy that your browser enforces. The rule that matters is connect-src 'none': no script on this page, the viewer included, may connect to any server. Pictures may only come from this site or from inside the email (img-src 'self' data: blob:), so a tracking pixel has nowhere to load from. The full policy, from this page’s source:
default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; style-src 'self'; img-src 'self' data: blob:; font-src 'self'; connect-src 'none'; worker-src 'self' blob:; child-src 'none'; frame-src 'none'; object-src 'none'; media-src 'none'; manifest-src 'none'; base-uri 'none'; form-action 'none'
Open your browser’s developer tools on the Network tab: when you open an email, you will see this site’s own .js files load, and no request to any other site.
Limits, honestly
- winmail.dat: some Outlook setups pack the attachments into one winmail.dat file. The viewer lists it so you can save it, but can’t unpack it yet.
- Encrypted S/MIME emails, and S/MIME emails signed in the opaque form, show only their header; the encrypted or signed part is listed as an attachment.
- Very large pictures (over 40 megapixels, or past 100 megapixels for one email’s pictures together) are not drawn in the message, to keep the page from slowing down or closing; one sent as an attachment can still be saved.
- Newsletter layouts from style sheets are simplified; the text, tables, colours and the pictures inside the email stay.
- TIFF and HEIC pictures are not shown in the message; save them from the attachments.
- Mailbox files (.pst, .ost, .mbox) don’t open here yet: the converter reads them. .olm files can’t be read.
- Up to 50 emails at a time. For a whole folder, use the converter.
Questions
How do I open a .msg file without Outlook?
Open this page in a current web browser and choose the .msg file, or drag it here. The email opens in the tab: the sender, recipients, date, message and attachments. Nothing is installed or uploaded, and .eml and Apple Mail .emlx files open the same way.
Can I open .msg and .eml files on a Mac?
Yes. Open this page in your web browser and choose the file, or drag it from Finder. Apple Mail opens .eml files but not Outlook's .msg files; this page opens both.
Can I open an email file on my iPhone or Android phone?
Yes. Tap Choose email files and pick the file. On an iPhone or iPad it has to be in the Files app first: if it came as an email attachment, touch and hold it in Mail, choose Share, then Save to Files.
Are my emails uploaded?
No. The email is read and shown by this browser tab, and nothing from it is sent to any server, ours included. The page's security policy (connect-src 'none') tells your browser to block any connection a script on the page tries to open; the only requests are for the viewer's own program files from this site.
Can I save the attachments?
Yes. Every attached file has a Save button that gives you the original file. An attached email can also be opened right here, and most pictures inside the message are shown in it.
Is it safe to open a suspicious email here?
The viewer is built for it. Scripts in the email never run, and remote images and tracking pixels are never loaded, so opening the email here doesn't tell the sender. Links don't open from the message: each one is listed with the address it really goes to. Attachments are only saved, never opened, and files that can run code are marked. Don't open an attachment you don't trust.
What is winmail.dat, and can I open it here?
It is a file in Outlook's own format (TNEF) that some Outlook setups send in place of the normal attachments. The viewer lists it and lets you save it, but can't unpack it yet.
Can I print an email or save it as a PDF?
Yes. With an email open, your browser's Print prints that email: its header, the names of its attachments and the message. Save as PDF makes one PDF of the email with its attachments added, made in your browser by the same engine as our converter.
Is it free?
Yes. Opening emails, saving attachments and saving an email as a PDF are free, with no sign-up. To turn a whole folder of emails into PDFs at once, our converter is free for up to 20 emails per run, with a $39 one-time licence for more.