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**To get the raw content of an email message**
The following ``get-raw-message-content`` example gets the raw content of an in-transit email message and sends it to a text file named ``test``. ::
aws workmailmessageflow get-raw-message-content \
--message-id a1b2cd34-ef5g-6h7j-kl8m-npq9012345rs \
test
Contents of file ``test`` after command runs::
Subject: Hello World
From: =?UTF-8?Q?marymajor_marymajor?= <[email protected]>
To: =?UTF-8?Q?mateojackson=40example=2Enet?= <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 19:22:46 +0000
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="=_EXAMPLE+"
References: <[email protected]>
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-Mailer: Amazon WorkMail
Thread-Index: EXAMPLE
Thread-Topic: Hello World
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Your mail reader does not
understand MIME message format.
--=_EXAMPLE+
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
hello world
--=_EXAMPLE+
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML><html>
<head>
<meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Amazon WorkMail v3.0-4510">
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8">=
<title>testing</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style=3D"margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-seri=
f; font-size: small;">hello world</p>
</body>
</html>
--=_EXAMPLE+--
For more information, see `Retrieving Message Content with AWS Lambda <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workmail/latest/adminguide/lambda-content.html>`__ in the *Amazon WorkMail Administrator Guide*.