[G4] Saving Email as Text

James Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Fri Jun 4 15:45:41 PDT 2004


On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 03:15  PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> The original poster on May 24th, wrote that she does specify saving as 
> .rtf.
> But she is doing this on a group of messages, and only the first 
> message
> enters the text file.  For the other messages in the group, only the 
> sigs
> appear.
>
> I, also. am interested in seeing the answer.

I suspect there is no answer.
It saves the active message and the headers or sig from the 
highlighting of the list.
  I really don't think it will batch process mail.
J


>
>
> Ron Steinke <ronsteinke at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> All of this appears to me to be a simple case of failing to read the
>> menu information and investigate the options that are offered.
>>
>> If you want to save an email message as a text file, just go to the
>> File menu and pull down to the "Save As...." command. In the save
>> dialogue box, you are given the option to save the message as one of
>> the following choices:
>> 1) Rich Text Format
>> 2) Plain Text
>> 3) Raw Message Source
>>
>> Select the format that you desire and proceed with the "save as"
>> process, choosing a location, etc.
>>
>> Unless you are having other and more serious problems, your difficulty
>> is something that you could have avoided by reading carefully and
>> choosing the proper option.
>
> -- 
> Al Poulin
> Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God,
> proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.
>
>



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