Spam Resource: What is an EML file?

Al Iverson just shared a new engaging blog on Spam Resource:

Remember EML files? I do. Back in the day (we’re talking the late 1990s here), Microsoft’s Outlook Express email client for Windows seemed to be the primary place where EML files came from — and might even have originated the format. Then the new millennium happened, we moved our music libraries to MP3 format, and nobody mentioned EML files for a time.But apparently what goes around comes around — I’m starting to think that EML files are popular again! Like a rediscovery of vinyl records, I’m running in to EML files anew. They’re coming in from clients, containing sample messages attached to requests for deliverability assistance. Those clients are exporting an email message from Gmail or Apple’s Mail.app on Macintosh to get that EML file, and it turns out, based on a few questions I’ve gotten recently, that not everybody knows what to do with an EML file.If indeed you…

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