EML
Remember EML files? Of course you do, but if not, I’ve blogged on the topic here previously.If you need to edit or view the raw headers or source from an email message, you can always just rename that file’s extension, changing it from “.eml” to “.txt” and then opening it up in your favorite text editor.But what if you want to do more? Here are three cool tools that allow you to visualize, extract or edit the content from EML files. What’s great about these is that each of the tools has a different focus.First, there’s emailpreview from Stephanie Griffith. Upon visiting, the first words you’ll see are, “Saving emails is a pain in the ass. We made it easy.” She’s right on both counts. Using this cool tool, you can take an EML file, or a URL, or raw HTML, and create an email preview image that you can…
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…