Jim Gonzales wrote: > Can any one tell me how to save .eml messages in a different format. I > use Mozilla Thunderbird on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Whenever I save a > message to my document folder, it is saved as a .eml file. As such, I > can not open the file. All graphics disappear. I can't even attach it > to another message. I have to forward as is.
Thunderbird saves the e-mail exactly as it was sent. It is a plain text file that you can read with something like less, vi, gedit, or kate. Graphics need to be rendered by an application. E-mail sends graphics by first converting to acsii strings, usually with base64 encoding. It is only a quirk of modern mail readers that they render graphics like a web browser. It sounds like what you really want is to save the e-mail message as an HTML page with the images already converted. You can do "Save As" and select HTML, but I don't think it will convert the inline images. I've looked for an add-on that will do what you want but there doesn't seem to be one yet that does that. Maybe someone else can find an addon. Gus -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
