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How can I save an email as a text file before deleting from it my inbox?

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Some emails I want to save to my computer so that i can view them without opening up my email. I used to be able to do this by saving to a documents folder as a text file. (Outlook express). I do not find this capablity in Thunderbird. if it is there, I have not found it.

Some emails I want to save to my computer so that i can view them without opening up my email. I used to be able to do this by saving to a documents folder as a text file. (Outlook express). I do not find this capablity in Thunderbird. if it is there, I have not found it.

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File|Save As gives you several options. By default it will save as a .eml file, which will need an email client to view. You can usually save by drag-and-drop, but that creates an .eml file too.

You can save as HTML by putting in an html file extension when doing File|Save As.

This add-on:

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html

gives you multiple options for saving one or more messages in various formats.

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File|Save As gives you several options. By default it will save as a .eml file, which will need an email client to view. You can usually save by drag-and-drop, but that creates an .eml file too.

You can save as HTML by putting in an html file extension when doing File|Save As.

This add-on:

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html

gives you multiple options for saving one or more messages in various formats.