# How to read emails from Exchange or Outlook to ES or logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-emails-from-exchange-or-outlook-to-es-or-logstash/123945>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-emails-from-exchange-or-outlook-to-es-or-logstash/123945 "2018-03-14T16:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Srikanth\_FT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Srikanth\_FT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srikanth_FT)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-emails-from-exchange-or-outlook-to-es-or-logstash/123945/1 "2018-03-14T16:00:40Z")

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Hi Team,

Can someone help me on how can i read Outlook/exchange emails and send them to ES (directly or via logstasth)

Thank you

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-emails-from-exchange-or-outlook-to-es-or-logstash/123945/2 "2018-03-17T13:43:36Z")

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Have you looked at the imap input plugin?

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**Author:** ![Srikanth\_FT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Srikanth\_FT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srikanth_FT)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-emails-from-exchange-or-outlook-to-es-or-logstash/123945/3 "2018-03-27T10:50:54Z")

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Yes. But Outlook/Exchange in my usecase do not expose IMAP. So i need to read the PST/OST file and pull into ELK

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-emails-from-exchange-or-outlook-to-es-or-logstash/123945/4 "2018-04-24T10:51:11Z")

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