diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 2bd05e6ba..498499aa1 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ RUN pip3 install uv && \
     fi; \
     chown -R $UID:$GID /app/backend/data/
 
-
+# Dependency for email message extraction
+RUN pip3 install extract_msg
 
 # copy embedding weight from build
 # RUN mkdir -p /root/.cache/chroma/onnx_models/all-MiniLM-L6-v2