eml files

[2little2late]

Have received an email with .eml files attached but I cannot open them. Using Windows XP and Outlook Express.
Could someone please help?
Thanks in advance.

[blueivy]

Have received an email with .eml files attached but I cannot open them. Using Windows XP and Outlook Express.
Could someone please help?
Thanks in advance.

How are trying to open them? What happens when you try to open them?

[Bobinovich]

Eml files are e-mails which, if attached to another e-mail, should be openable by double clicking on them. If nothing happens when you double click them then it's possible that the extension (.eml) has been disassociated - do they have a little envelope icon next to the eml files?

[2little2late]

How are trying to open them? What happens when you try to open them?

Pop up message appears, the file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel.

[blueivy]

Pop up message appears, the file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel.

What to do is save the file somewhere (let's say the desktop) and then open the file from wherever you've saved it to. You will get a message saying that 'Windows cannot open the file' - from this message, select 'Select the program from a list' and then select Outlook Express from the list and make sure 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' is ticked. Select OK.

That should fix it so that when you try and open the file from within Outlook Express it will open it within Outlook Express.

Once you've done that you can delete the .eml file you saved to the desktop.

[2little2late]

What to do is save the file somewhere (let's say the desktop) and then open the file from wherever you've saved it to. You will get a message saying that 'Windows cannot open the file' - from this message, select 'Select the program from a list' and then select Outlook Express from the list and make sure 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' is ticked. Select OK.

That should fix it so that when you try and open the file from within Outlook Express it will open it within Outlook Express.

Once you've done that you can delete the .eml file you saved to the desktop.

Have done this, but when it opens in OE all that happens is that Outlook Express opens to my in box, but message does not open at all.

[blueivy]

Have done this, but when it opens in OE all that happens is that Outlook Express opens to my in box, but message does not open at all.

When you saved the file to the desktop how big was it? What you opened it (and you got Outlook Express just going to your inbox) did you open it from the desktop or as an attachment? Try both and see if it's different.

When you saved the .eml file to the desktop, try opening it with Notepad and see it's contents. Here is a quick .eml file I created earlier - your will obviously be different but it will have a similar format:

To: "paul"
Subject: uytds
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:19:40 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0006_01C8CCE2.CDE9DCB0"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Unsent: 1
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.3959

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.