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Display .eml or .msg Email Files in Business Central AL?

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Hi everyone,

Is there a way to display the contents of an email file (e.g., .eml or .msg) within the Business Central AL environment?

I’m looking for a solution that would allow users to view the content of such files (including subject, body, attachments) directly from Business Central, ideally using AL code.

Has anyone implemented something similar or knows if this is supported?

Thanks in advance!

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YUN ZHU 95,057 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Display .eml or .msg Email Files in Business Central AL?

As far as I know, it is not possible, but you can try Outlook's Graph APIs, which may be able to read your content, but the file should not be able to be opened via AL.

Get eventMessage - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Learn

Hope this can give you some hints.

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ZHU

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CU15071722-0 29 on at

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Display .eml or .msg Email Files in Business Central AL?

Thank you, YUN ZHU, for your response.

Are we not able to read .msg files in Business Central using MSGReader?

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Display .eml or .msg Email Files in Business Central AL?

At the moment, Business Central AL doesn’t support rendering or displaying .eml or .msg files directly within the UI. There's no built-in AL support to parse or preview Outlook email file formats natively.

However, a practical workaround is to store the email metadata (subject, sender, body text) in a custom table and link it to the file as a media field or external link. For full email preview, you might consider using the Microsoft Graph API to fetch and display email content from Outlook or Exchange Online.

So while direct rendering of .eml/.msg files isn't possible in AL, you can build a user-friendly alternative by integrating with external services like Graph API and storing email data in structured form inside BC.

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Matteo Fiocco 260 on at

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Display .eml or .msg Email Files in Business Central AL?

Hey!

Business Central doesn’t support viewing .eml or .msg files directly out of the box, but there are a couple of ways you can make it work. You can use an external service (like an Azure Function) to read and parse the email file — for example, with tools like MimeKit or Microsoft Graph. The parsed data (subject, body, attachments) can then be sent back to BC in JSON format using AL's HttpClient, and displayed in a custom page.

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