Python Digital Forensics Cookbook by Preston Miller & Chapin Bryce

Author:Preston Miller & Chapin Bryce [Miller, Preston]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2017-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Viewing MSG files

Recipe Difficulty: Easy

Python Version: 2.7 or 3.5

Operating System: Windows

Email messages can come in many different formats. The MSG format is another popular container for storing message content and attachments. In this example, we will learn to parse MSG files using the Outlook API.

Getting started

This recipe requires the installation of the third-party library pywin32. This means the script will only be compatible on Windows systems. We will also need to install pywin32, as we did in Chapter 1, Essential Scripting and File Information Recipes.

To install pywin32, we need to access its SourceForge page at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ and download the version that matches your Python installation. To check our Python version, we can import the sys module and call sys.version within an interpreter. Both the version and the architecture are important when selecting the correct pywin32 installer. We also want to confirm we have a valid installation of Outlook that has been setup on our machine, as the pywin32 bindings rely on resources provided by Outlook. We are ready to create the script after running the pywin32 installer.

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