One Reader package for the complete OfficeIMO.Email data surface:
Email body, text attachment, iCalendar, and vCard chunks retain complete Unicode scalars at MaxChars boundaries.
Text attachments use the shared email charset decoder before projection or delegation to a registered text handler.
Decoding recovery warnings appear in the document diagnostics and attachment chunk warnings.
Each ordinary attachment reports a Reader extraction outcome: succeeded, unsupported, content unavailable,
empty, or failed. Unsupported payloads are skipped before opening their content stream. Outcomes carry
the logical attachment path in document diagnostics and ReaderEmailStoreItemResult.ItemDiagnostics;
skip, empty and failure details also appear on attachment chunks. Document metadata includes attempted,
succeeded, skipped, empty and failed counts. Embedded messages are projected recursively and counted
separately. Successful extraction means readable content was produced; nested handler warnings still apply.
HTML and RTF bodies use the existing HTML adapter for semantic Markdown even when the host registers only
email handlers. A host's registered HTML handler takes precedence. Projection failures retain the safe HTML
source and report EMAIL_BODY_READER_FAILED.
Selected email bodies also carry bounded instruction and concealment diagnostics. Warnings appear on the message
and body chunks as well as the document result, including when concealed text is omitted. Direct, asynchronous,
mailbox and selected-store-item reads use the same projection. The default retains text; configure
ReaderEmailOptions.ConcealedTextPolicy and ReaderEmailStoreOptions.ConcealedTextPolicy as
OfficeIMO.Email.EmailConcealedTextPolicy.ExcludeRemovable to omit exact removable HTML concealment findings.
The original message remains intact. Unsupported removal mechanisms remain visible with a warning, and an
uninspectable HTML body produces an omission notice under that policy. Inspection completion covers bounded
heuristics, not a guarantee that content is safe to follow. Attachment and metadata strings remain untrusted.
Store attachments use bounded session streams by default, including OLM and EMLX.
Reader consumes supported attachment text before closing the session and returns asset metadata without
PayloadBytes for streamed content. To retain available attachment bytes in a result, register the store handler
with new ReaderEmailStoreOptions { StreamAttachmentContent = false } and keep the item's explicit streaming
preference disabled. StoreOptions.RetainAttachmentContent = false omits payloads in either mode.
Registered store safety limits, including MaxDirectoryEntryCount, survive option cloning; MaxItems bounds
the projected selection independently of the store's catalog limits.
Direct message, mailbox, iCalendar, and vCard handlers expose native asynchronous path and stream entry points.
ReadDocumentAsync uses their owning libraries' async I/O and Reader.Core's asynchronous source hashing.
Source hashes are computed once by Reader.Core when ComputeHashes is enabled, and caller streams remain open
with their original position restored.
- EML, MSG/OFT, TNEF, Mbox/MBX, iCalendar, and vCard artifacts
- MHT/MHTML web archives with embedded MIME resources projected through
OfficeIMO.Reader.Html - PST, OST, OLM, EMLX, Maildir, and mailbox-directory sessions
- Outlook Offline Address Book files
using OfficeIMO.Reader;
using OfficeIMO.Reader.Email;
OfficeDocumentReader reader = new OfficeDocumentReaderBuilder()
.AddEmailHandlers()
.Build();
OfficeDocumentReadResult message = reader.ReadDocument("message.msg");
OfficeDocumentReadResult store = reader.ReadDocument("archive.pst");
OfficeDocumentReadResult webArchive = reader.ReadDocument("snapshot.mhtml");Register only MHTML when the other email handlers are not needed:
OfficeDocumentReader reader = new OfficeDocumentReaderBuilder()
.AddMhtmlHandler()
.Build();Install this package when Reader needs email or MHTML data. It depends on OfficeIMO.Reader.Core, OfficeIMO.Email, OfficeIMO.Email.Html, OfficeIMO.Mhtml, and the lean OfficeIMO.Reader.Html projection. Email HTML/text/Markdown preparation reuses the shared safe body and embedded-resource contract; store and address-book support do not add separate NuGet layers or another email model.