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Preview .eml and .msg files in SharePoint on premises
I have a question regarding Preview of files. In Office 365 there are a lot of options to preview files. But I am looking into SharePoint server.
And especially into eml and msg files can you p...
The SharePoint on-premises 2013, 2016, and 2019 do not support native preview for EML and MSG files. Like Office 365, the on-premises versions do not include the built-in viewer for the file formats. It simply means that in SharePoint 2013, there is no option to preview for EML and MSG files, in SharePoint 2016 / 2019 also there is also no native preview, and in Edition, it doesn’t change the behaviour.
So, SharePoint on-premises does not have the ability to preview EML or MSG files, as it can only let you download them, but not preview them inside the browser. And if you really want to preview the files, then you can use the third-party plugins or softwares, you cannot directly view them in SharePoint on-premises.