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# Email

This notebook shows how to load email (`.eml`) and Microsoft Outlook (`.msg`) files.

## Using Unstructured

    from langchain.document_loaders import UnstructuredEmailLoader

    loader = UnstructuredEmailLoader('example_data/fake-email.eml')

    data = loader.load()

    data

    [Document(page_content='This is a test email to use for unit tests.\n\nImportant points:\n\nRoses are red\n\nViolets are blue', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'example_data/fake-email.eml'}, lookup_index=0)]

### Retain Elements

Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying `mode="elements"`.

    loader = UnstructuredEmailLoader('example_data/fake-email.eml', mode="elements")

    data = loader.load()

    data[0]

    Document(page_content='This is a test email to use for unit tests.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'example_data/fake-email.eml'}, lookup_index=0)

## Using OutlookMessageLoader

    from langchain.document_loaders import OutlookMessageLoader

    loader = OutlookMessageLoader('example_data/fake-email.msg')

    data = loader.load()

    data[0]

    Document(page_content='This is a test email to experiment with the MS Outlook MSG Extractor\r\n\r\n\r\n-- \r\n\r\n\r\nKind regards\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBrian Zhou\r\n\r\n', metadata={'subject': 'Test for TIF files', 'sender': 'Brian Zhou <brizhou@gmail.com>', 'date': 'Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:26:24 +0800'})