What is .eml?

[Mark Haney]

Ken McLennan wrote:
> G'day there One & All,
> 
>> They are email files.  These are usually created when your mail client 
>> is set to 'forward as an attachment'.  I'd say a good portion of them 
>> are Outlook or (more likely) OE forwards.
>>   
> 
>    It's not just the Windows mailers that use the format. I'm on 
> Thunderbird writing this, and if I try to save a message as a file it 
> offers ".eml" as the default extension.
> 
> See ya
> Ken McLennan
> Qld, Australia
> 

I know that.  I was just going on the fact that most users will use 
either Outlook or OE, and I know OE forwards mail as attachments by 
default, which is why I mentioned it.  Notice that I said 'usually' and 
'a good portion'.  It wasn't a hard and fast definitive by any means.



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