![]() ![]() Now that my GMail inbox is down to less than 20 messages, I want to use Thunderbird as my email client, and do a better job of managing my emails. I started using EML files to preserve web page links and attachments, and developed workflows to save messages from GMail as either plain text, or as EML files, depending on content. Using various tools, I was able to get rid of the Outlook messages, archiving the information in associated folders according to subject, mostly as plain text files with unique file name that include date, sender, recipient and subject. ![]() msf file in my profile), which explains why neither asked for a file name or file location of a saved file.Ī bit of background: Since 1999 I had accumulated over 30,000 emails in Outlook (the results of numerous email providers and accounts), and decided to get a handle on what to save and what to delete. After some fiddling I found that I was trying to save an existing EML file, and I realized that Thunderbird and the ImportExport add-on work only with MBOX files (or whatever is inside the. ![]() Your "atypical" comment made me ponder why I want to do this.
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