make a 'save as' of emails in Kmail and save in an KDE folder

[anthony baldwin]

Art Alexion wrote:

>On Wednesday 02 May 2007 10:12, Wolfgang Schuch wrote:
>  
>
>>I would like to know, if it is possible to make with KMail the same I made
>>years before with windows: when I had an email in the Outlook, I made a
>>'save as' and saved the email in a 'Documents'-folder.
>>When afterwards I went to that folder and clicked on that email, it opened
>>  the Outlook and showed me what there was written in the email, even also
>>the attachments could be opened. Also it was possible to 'answer' that
>>saved email.
>>
>>I've tried to do so with the KMail, saving in the Konqueror, but the saved
>>document resulted to be an 'MBOX', and I don't know how to open it, when I
>>wish to do so.
>>    
>>
>
>In kmail, just do a "save as" with the message you want highlighted.  In 
>kmail, you can reopen the message by doing a "File->Open".  Problem is that 
>the "save as" command does not append an extension, and the "File Open" 
>dialog filters for an unknown extension ".eml & .msg" don't work.  It works 
>if you have the file name and start typing it.  Anyone know what extension 
>kmail wants?
>
>  
>
.txt works.  I just tested it.  Save a msg as .txt, opened and read it 
in Kate.
no problems.

/tony

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