Gus Wirth wrote: > 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.
This issue has been around a long time. The bug report is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164154 Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
