And it came to pass that Parish wrote:
> WDA wrote:
>> Okay. I'm using Mozilla 0.9.8 (loving it) on a Windows Me
>> machine. I'm looking at a message, rather inbox or
>> newgroups - who cares, and I want to save that message to
>> my C:\ drive. I select File/Save As and give it a name.
>> There. It's saved.
>>
>> Now, one would assume, especially if your a novice or
>> general email/client user, that you could view the file you
>> saved with the same application that created it. Right!
>> Well, when I'm in my Mozilla email client and I want to see
>> the message that I have saved, I should be able to go to
>> File/Open and retrieve that message - that does seem
>> logical to me. That however, is not what is happening.
>> Perhaps I don't understand the Save As option.
>>
>
> The current behaviour is correct. It is just that the name
> "File" for the menu is a bit of a misnomer but is the
> standard name for the leftmost menu (not only in Windows).
>
> E-mail clients are intended for handling mail (and news)
> messages, not opening disk files; they are not text editors.
>
> The ability to save a message to a file is an export
> function - so you can use the message elsewhere, or just
> have a safe copy of an important message.
>
> FWIW, I just checked and Outhouse Excess does exactly the
> same thing as Mozilla.
>
Only if you save as a format OTHER than *.eml
Oulook uses "*.eml" for its messages internally, and thus can
read it natively. NEtscape does not read this format, but can
save to it, which is where the confusion came in.
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