--- title: MSG_PARSE url: https://www.tines.com/docs/formulas/functions/msg-parse/ kind: formula-function --- *[tines.com](https://www.tines.com/llms.txt) › [Docs](https://www.tines.com/llms.txt) › [Formulas](https://www.tines.com/llm/docs/formulas.md) › [Functions](https://www.tines.com/llm/docs/formulas/functions.md)* # MSG_PARSE *[View on tines.com](https://www.tines.com/docs/formulas/functions/msg-parse/)* Takes the contents of an .msg file (Outlook item/email) and parses out information such as `to`, `from`, `subject`, `attachments`, etc. By default headers are truncated on newline characters. To parse full headers set the extract_multiline_headers optional parameter to TRUE. By default the parsed email includes a single `body` field containing the HTML part if available, otherwise the text part. Set the single_body optional parameter to FALSE to replace `body` with separate `body_html` and `body_text` fields. Output is consistent with `EML_PARSE`. **Categories:** Data Parsing/Conversion ## Syntax ``` MSG_PARSE(file, [extract_multiline_headers: FALSE], [single_body: TRUE]) ``` ## Examples ### Example 1 Input: ```json { "my_action": { "message": { "file_upload_1": { "contents": "BASE64 Encoded .msg file contents", "display_logo": true, "name": "Sample MSG File.msg", "type": "application/vnd.ms-outlook" } } } } ``` Formula: ``` MSG_PARSE(BASE64_DECODE(my_action.message.file_upload_1.contents)) ``` Output: ```json { "attachments": [], "body": "\n\n\n\n", "cc": [], "date": "2017-06-01T15:24:31+00:00", "from": "from@domain.com", "headers": { "Content-Type": "multipart/alternative; boundary=\"----_=_NextPart_001_00c81914.63ca02d3\"", "Date": "Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:24:31 +0000", "From": "from@domain.com", "Message-ID": "c58b1b52f61f4789ba40339c6e993440", "Mime-Version": "1.0", "Subject": "creating an outlook message file", "Thread-Topic": "creating an outlook message file", "To": "to@domain.com", "X-Unsent": "1" }, "message_id": "c58b1b52f61f4789ba40339c6e993440", "subject": "creating an outlook message file", "to": [ "to@domain.com" ] } ``` ## Sample actions ```json { "standardLibVersion": "13", "actionRuntimeVersion": "1", "agents": [ { "disabled": false, "name": "New Page", "description": "", "options": { "fields": "", "mode": "success_page", "submissionMessage": "Thank you for your submission", "visibility": "tenant", "pages_background_color": "#F9F9F9", "page_logo": { "name": "nites.jpeg", "type": "image/jpeg", "contents": "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" } }, "position": { "x": 330, "y": 3360 }, "type": "form", "timeSavedUnit": "minutes", "timeSavedValue": 0, "monitorAllEvents": false, "monitorFailures": false, "monitorNoEventsEmitted": null, "form": { "fields": [ { "content": null, "defaultValue": null, "description": "", "maxCharacters": null, "multiSelect": false, "name": "File upload 1", "options": [ "Option 1", "Option 2" ], "required": false, "type": "FILE_UPLOAD" }, { "content": "Submit", "defaultValue": null, "description": "", "maxCharacters": null, "multiSelect": false, "name": "Button", "options": [ "Option 1", "Option 2" ], "required": false, "type": "BUTTON" } ] } }, { "disabled": false, "name": "My Action", "description": "", "options": { "mode": "message_only", "loop": false, "payload": { "message": "=new_page.body" } }, "position": { "x": 330, "y": 3645 }, "type": "eventTransformation", "timeSavedUnit": "minutes", "timeSavedValue": 0, "monitorAllEvents": false, "monitorFailures": false, "monitorNoEventsEmitted": null, "form": null }, { "disabled": false, "name": "MSG_PARSE", "description": "", "options": { "mode": "message_only", "loop": false, "payload": { "msg_parse": "=MSG_PARSE(BASE64_DECODE(my_action.message.file_upload_1.contents))" } }, "position": { "x": 330, "y": 3735 }, "type": "eventTransformation", "timeSavedUnit": "minutes", "timeSavedValue": 0, "monitorAllEvents": false, "monitorFailures": false, "monitorNoEventsEmitted": null, "form": null } ], "links": [ { "sourceIdentifier": 0, "receiverIdentifier": 1 }, { "sourceIdentifier": 1, "receiverIdentifier": 2 } ], "diagramNotes": [] } ```