[G4] Saving Email as Text

[Keith Whaley]

Alex wrote:

> 
> On Sunday, Jun 27, 2004, at 01:35 Canada/Eastern, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
> 
>>  [...] Since I want to archive several years of email, I need to be
>> able to save whole threads as single .rtf files.
> 
> 
> I don't know, maybe it's an issue of text encoding; however, if you want 
> to archive e-mail, RTF is not a good choice. Save as Raw Message Source; 
> it's a much better option.
> 
> <0x0192>

When I opt to "Save As" an email message, it offers me a suffix of 
"text," "html" or  ".eml."
Is .eml your Raw Message Source?

Why is that better than "text?"

keith whaley