New feature proposal: EML export for the Mail application

/e/OS Smartphone Operating System Features & Applications
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For the integrated email application, I suggest one feature:

The ability to export emails as EML files (I use this feature a lot on my Pi to keep trace of some important messages, or for legal reasons). Of course, Mail should be able to read these EML files later. Local folders could be great too, but that’s a much bigger addition.

Do you have any other ideas?

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MailStore Home is a very helpful software for a local mail archive, runs only on windows though…

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I have no problem to do this on my desktop PC dedicated to work (Raspberry Pi + RISC OS + Messenger Pro). The idea would be to replicate this professional feature under the stock /e/OS, to make it a more suitable option for workers.

Noa : I do not use Windows computers :grin:

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The problem may be to design this in such a way that the build will succeed for 271 different devices.

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Original request was understood … was not clear/ sure though how broad your interest in “other ideas” was meant…

FairEmail supports export of mails as eml.

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The problem may be to design this in such a way that the build will succeed for 271 different devices.

Hum, it’s just a feature for the Mail App. Nothing linked to the hardware. From an OS point of view, the only thing to do is to open EML files with Mail.

FairEmail supports export of mails as eml.

Thanks for the information. So it seems to be a good idea after all :slight_smile:

Nota: if Murena provides a connector to connect the Murena Cloud Drive to /e/OS, it will be possible to save EML files directly to the cloud.

For someone like me, who needs to keep 5 to 10 important emails by project, with more than 100 projects a year, to keep everything in the mailbox would be a nightmare, with terabytes of data. And to remove everything would be very risky too. So the idea of providing an EML export option.

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.eml export actually got integrated upstream (thunderbird) late 2025 in debug/daily builds for developers

the /e/OS version of Mail is atm a v6.712 derivate from k9mail (now thunderbird mail). When it’s made public upstream, it will eventually trickle down.

Thus for signaling to have this public instead of for devs only, it makes the most sense to vote on Mozillas connect entries https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/eml-support/idi-p/87395

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Good news! Fingers crossed :grinning_face:

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