How to save a mail into an .eml-file with Outlook?

Question

Outlook Express and Thunderbird both support the .eml-file format. Somehow Outlook does not.

Is there any way to save mails into into an .eml-file using Outlook (e.g. with the help of a plugin)?

Answer 1

You can either import the messages into Outlook Express and save them as EML files, or use Outlook Extract

OutlookExtract is a tool that helps you to extract your e-mail messages and Attachments contained in MS Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail. You can save the messages as Mime (.eml), Outlook message (.msg), Adobe PDF or as Text / Html Files.

Another option:

Just double click on the message, go up to Save -> Save As and under the file type choose Text .txt .

This is the same as EML format, you can just change the file extension from .txt to .eml

Answer 2

Mail Store Home is a program free for home use. It allows you to link a number of email programs (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc) and online email sources (Gmail, yahoo) to the one local Mail database. You run the program and it will access the email from the different locations or program you point it at and consolidate them into a single database. From there you can export the mail to any of the desktop programs. So in other words it will pull the mail from Outlook and export it into, say, Thunderbird for you

It is also a good way of backing up your email from multiple sources and make them searchable. Also an excellent way to back-up (and search) your on-line emails (like Gmail) on your desktop even when not online.

If you are only trying to convert a single email it may be overkill - but it works well

Answer 3

You're looking to convert your PST file to EML.

I can't find any free tools to do this, but this seems to do the job, and the demo may or may not get it done.

Answer 4

Bit of a drawn out process, but fairly simple:

Open Outlook and Outlook express on your computer.

In Outlook Express:

• Select Import > Messages from the File menu.
• Select Microsoft Outlook from the dialog box and press Next.
• Select the folder (or all) that you want to convert. Press Next.
• After importing, press next.
• Find the imported folder and highlight all the messages - Drag them to a folder and they will be saved as .eml format.

:)