Is it really neccessary to save mail outside OL?

"Rajkumar" wrote in message
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Dear Brian,

Before Outlook 2003, I am using Outlook Express 6. In which when I am
saving
any e-mail in my Inbox by default gets saved as ".eml" extension. Which
saves
the attachments as it is with message as in Inbox. Whenever I explore the
saved e-mail & double clicks it, e-mail gets opened as if it is in inbox.
I
am able to reply the saved e-mail by clicking on reply button on toolbar.

Now with Outlook 2003, I have to change the "save as type" each time I
save
the e-mail in Inbox, which is cumbersome. Also HTML format dosen't saves
attachments with e-mail on hard disk as ".eml" file & I can not reply the
mail saved as HTML as it gets opened in web browser.

Thank you for your reply.

Rajkumar

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Rajkumar wrote:

I am saving message in my inbox using "File-Save As" menu.
"Save As.." dialog by default shows "Save As Type:" as "HTML".
How I can change default file format Outlook uses to save messages to
as "Outlook Message Format - Unicode" ??????

I believe the Save As default type will match the format of the message.
If
your message is an HTML message, the Save As will default to .htm. If a
Plain Text message, it will default to .txt. If a Rich Text message, to
..rtf. There is no way I know to change that.
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Brian Tillman