Gmail: Save an email to disk

Want to save a single email from gmail to disk, in a readable format for Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail? Here's how:

  1. Open your browser and log into your gmail account.
  2. Open the email you want to save.
  3. On the top-right, there is a little triangle next to the "Reply" button. Click that, and select ["Show Original"](gmail-show-original.png).
  4. The original, raw email opens in a new window or tab.
  5. Right-click on this new window, and select ["Save as..."](gmail-save-as.png).
  6. When saving the file, make sure the extension of the filename is "**eml**". So for example ["MyEmail.eml"](gmail-name-it-eml.png).

All done. Now you dan open the file in Thunderbird, Outlook or whatever email viewer you have out there and see the original mail, in all it's marked-up glory.