Extract attachments from an email
Drop one or more messages: their attachments come out in an archive sorted by message, including those sleeping inside an attached message or a winmail.dat.
Or drop as many .msg, .eml or winmail.dat files as you like here. Nothing is uploaded: the files stay in this tab.
When to use it
Twenty messages from the same case, each with two or three attachments: opening them one by one to save each file takes an hour, and something gets missed.
A message forwarding another, which holds a third: the attachments at the bottom are the hardest to reach, and often the ones you are after.
What this tool does
- The attachments of each dropped message, in one folder per message, named after its date, sender and subject.
- Attached messages (a .msg inside a .msg, a forwarded .eml) and winmail.dat files, opened in turn: the screen says at which level each attachment sits.
- A CSV index: message, attachment name, size, SHA-256 fingerprint.
- File names kept as sent, and told apart when two attachments share a name.
What it does not do: An attachment is never opened by the page: it is extracted as it is, neither run nor converted. Whole mailboxes (.pst, .ost, .mbox) are not read here.
What it reads
- .msg, .eml, .emlx and winmail.dat, as many files as you like.
- Attached messages and winmail.dat files, at every level.
No file is uploaded: the message is read by your browser, in this tab, and the page is not allowed to open a connection to any other site.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I save all the attachments of an email at once?
- Drop the message on this page: all its attachments come out in a single ZIP archive, sorted by message.
- What about the attachments of an attached message?
- They are extracted too. An attached message is opened like a dropped one, and its own attachments are filed under it.
- What is the SHA-256 fingerprint in the index for?
- To recognise a file without opening it: two files with the same fingerprint are identical byte for byte. It links a saved attachment to the message it came from.
Other tools
- Open a .msg file : An email saved from Outlook, read without Outlook: header, body, attachments.
- Open an .eml file : The standard email format, and Apple Mail's .emlx: every encoding, every part.
- Open a winmail.dat : The unreadable attachment Outlook sends: the real files inside come out.
- Open a PST file : A whole Outlook mailbox (.pst, .ost): its folders, its messages, search and filters.
- Open an mbox mailbox : An mbox mailbox (Gmail via Google Takeout, Thunderbird): labels, search, attachments.