Save an Email From Hotmail to Your Hard Drive as EML

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Most email is stored securely in Windows Live Hotmail and is easily accessible through your browser or email program. But what if you want to save a specific message to a file folder along with all the other documents in a related project? Or what if you want to share an email in its entirety, including all the headers that get truncated when you just forward it in Windows Live Hotmail? You may want a copy of a message stored on your desktop for easy and convenient access.

In addition to setting up Windows Live Hotmail in a local email program and exporting email from there, you can also save each message as an .eml (a plain text file that contains all the message text and details and is opened by many users). email clients). and easy to share).

Save a Windows Live Hotmail Email as an EML File on Your Hard Drive

To create an .eml file copy of a single message in Windows Live Hotmail (for example, to file separately or forward as an attachment):

Receive Your Message to Save

  1. In Windows Live Hotmail, open the message that you want to save to your hard drive.

  2. In the message header, select the three dots next to Reply.


  3. Select View message source from the menu that appears.


    Note: You can also right-click the message list and select View Message Source from the context menu.

  4. Press Ctrl+A (Windows and Linux) or Cmd+A (Mac) to highlight all the text and code from the message source.


  5. Press Ctrl+C (Windows and Linux) or Command+C (Mac) to copy the selected text.


Depending on your web browser, you may be able to save the message directly as an .eml file. You can see which field your browser lands on by right-clicking on the body of your email. If you can save as .eml, use the instructions directly below. If not, scroll down to the alternative option.

Save Your Message as an EML File

Note: Due to changes in the design of Outlook, this may not work in most browsers.

  1. Select File > Save As (or your browser's "Save As" command) from the message source window or tab menu.

  2. Rename the file to [Subject].eml or email.eml or something similar.

  3. Make sure the file extension is .eml (instead of .aspx or .htm to save, continue below).

  4. Make sure your browser saves the page source (instead of using, for example, the "web archive" format).

  5. Save the file to your desktop or to another folder on your hard drive.

Save Your Message With a Text Editor

If your browser doesn't support saving the message as an EML file, you can use a text editor like Notepad to do the job.

  1. Open a simple text editor (for example, TextEdit, Notepad, or Gedit).

  2. Create a new plain text document.

  3. Press Ctrl+V (Windows and Linux) or Cmd+V (Mac) to paste the message source.

  4. Save the document as a plain text file on your desktop or in another folder with an .eml extension.


Note: For example, you can use the message subject for the file name and save a message with the subject "Sailing next weekend?". like "Browsing next weekend .eml".

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