title: Reading Composite Document File V2 Document (.msg) files in ubuntu
body: <p>I have a large dump of data from an outlook email account that comes entirely in .msg files. A quick call to ubuntu's file method revealed that they were Composite Document File V2 Documents (whatever that means). I would really like to be able to read these files as plaintext. Is that possible at all?</p>
  
  <p>Update: Turns out it wasn't totally possible to do what I wanted for large scale data mining on these kinds of files which was a bummer. In case you face the same issue I made a library to address this issue. <a href="https://github.com/Slater-Victoroff/msgReader">https://github.com/Slater-Victoroff/msgReader</a> </p>
  
  <p>Documentation isn't great, but it's a pretty small library so it should be self explanatory.</p>