There is is apparently a need to be able to open Microsoft Outlook Message files (*.msg) in Microsoft Outlook on Mac OS systems.
There is an easy trick.
- Install brew if not already installed.
- Run brew install python (which now installs python 3.9).
- Checkout this repository.
- Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user.
- Using Automator create an application which can open an MSG File in Outlook (Run Shell Script), call it MsgViewer.
- Using Automator create an application which can run multiple instances of the bofore created Application (Run Apple Script), call it OutlookPreview.
#!/bin/bash
runpy3 () {
/usr/bin/env python3 <<'EOF' - "$@"
Place here the content of outlook_viewer.py
EOF
}
runpy3 "$@"
on run {input, parameters}
set f to quoted form of (POSIX path of (input as text))
do shell script "source ~/.bash_profile"
do shell script "open -n -a MsgViewer.app --args " & f
end run
Copy both applications into the Applications folder. Associate the "msg" file extension with the OutlookPreview.