Title: How to save emails from Thunderbird as .eml
Tags: email;thunderbird
Question: Thunderbird officially supports the  format .eml-file but I am not able to save mails into this format. Please advise how to do this.



Here is another answer: You have to:


first save the email you are writing, as a draft
then go to the drafts folder, right click on your email > Save as... > choose .eml file type and save


I don't know why Thunderbird obliges us to this workaround.


Here is another answer: Yes

```
  Displays a 'Save Message As' dialog where you can select a location on
  your local disks or network to save a copy of the message you are
  currently reading. You can save as .eml, .html, or .txt file types. In
  the Windows version, select these under 'Save as type:', in the Linux
  version change the default extension of '.eml' to either '.html' or
  '.txt' if you wish to save it in one of these other formats. (Note,
  the only way to open a '.eml' format file in the Linux version is to
  use the File > Open Saved Message menu selection.)
```

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Comment for this answer: many  thanks - i will do all you advice. greetings

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