moving attached (embedded) email to mail folder

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 04:54, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 06:30 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
>> I am looking for a mail client, or a Thunderbird plugin, with a very
>> specific feature.
>>
>> Sometimes I get emails that are forwarded as attachment (.eml files).
>> I want to save the attached emails, not on the filesystem, but in the
>> mail
>> folder, and of course preserving all original mail headers.
>>
>> The only mail client that enables me to do this, is Microsoft Outlook.
>> With MS Outlook up to 2003 I can select all attached mails at once and
>> move them to a mail folder inside the mail client. With Outlook 2007 and
>> 2010 I have to do this for every individual email.
>> This does not happen often (once or twice per week) but I don't like
>> starting up a VM each time.
>>
>> Already tried Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, Claws and Squirrelmail.
>>
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you are asking for specifically (I'd need to setup
> Outlook 97 to figure it out). You can save the .eml's in Thunderbird (as
> you say to the filesystem) but I see no way to save to a folder inside
> the mail client. On plugin that may be of help (works on both
> Thunderbird and SeaMonkey) is:
>
> http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
>
> You might poke around that and see if that meets your needs. Note: don't
> bother trying with Opera as I can't seem to find a way to do this with
> that either.

It fits my needs *exactly*! Thank you so much.
>From the description on the website:

Context menu on an EML attachment

    - import file in the folder

and it does exactly that: the attached .eml becomes a new mail in the
current mail folder, preserving all mail headers etc.

-- 
Amedee