Want to save a single email from gmail to disk, in a readable format for Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail? Here’s how:
- Open your browser and log into your gmail account.
- Open the email you want to save.
- On the top-right, there is a little triangle next to the “Reply” button. Click that, and select “Show Original”.
- The original, raw email opens in a new window or tab.
- Right-click on this new window, and select “Save as…”.
- When saving the file, make sure the extension of the filename is “eml“. So for example “MyEmail.eml”.
All done. Now you dan open the file in Thunderbird, Outlook or whatever email viewer you have out there and see the original mail, in all it’s marked-up glory.
Wow !Thank you so much for this method. I just got to know about it !
This was really useful, exactly what I needed. Thank you
Doesn’t work for me. But I can save as .html.
Just retested with the new interface, still works. Have you checked the screenshots under the links in the article?
It worked. Thank you
A very easy technique I just discovered. Click on the “Print” icon. Then in the print dialog, change the chosen printer to “Save as PDF”. Then click save and choose the folder you want to save in.
Cool tip. But different format. The procedure in the blog gives you an EML file instead of a PDF.
Also, if you have any attachments pdf will not hold it…
Perfecto! Awesome dude. Perfectly working.
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It’s a very informative blog. Thanks for providing this knowledge. I also came across a blog that is similar to this & has good content. Please visit the link below:
http://gmail-and-yahoo-tips.blogspot.com/2016/07/export-gmail-to-eml-files-complete-guide.html
doesn’t work anymore. it won’t save all the html formatting, only raw text. any other ideas that work in 2018?
because i want to save the formatting and the photos embedded.
maybe go straight to ‘save as’ when inside the email?
i got lucky this time because its a long email so i have option to click on a hotlink to formatted html page that i can ‘save as’:
[Message clipped] View entire message
I have no idea, I stopped using gmail a few years ago because Google seemed to regularly break their “Don’t be evil” rule.
google twitter facebook amazon apple microsoft and their top brass are a conglomerate who invade our lives/brains, do max evil and convince us ‘its all good’ so there’s nobody who’d more like to bypass them all but alas they rule. what did you switch to that is as easy to setup/manage and email blog posts to? super curious.
Hushmail. I basically steer clear of anything that’s “free”. If the product is free, you are the product.