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EDIT: I am not asking HOW to save email from Outlook in EML format. Hence this question is not a duplicate of How to save a mail into an .eml-file with Outlook? !

I cannot find any relevant reference to the missing full support for the EML format in Microsoft Outlook, i.e. including export. (And yes, I do know that you can open an EML file in Outlook :) )

Is it a deliberate Microsoft decision, why you cannot save emails in the EML format? Or is it only "low priority"? Is it a remnant of the many Microsoft vendor lock-in attempts from the past? Has Microsoft ever made any statement about this missing interoperability function?

Honza Zidek
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    If you can open EML files, then support is not missing, is it? – u1686_grawity Apr 25 '22 at 07:29
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    @user1686 You cannot **export** an email from Outlook in EML format. It was in my question even before, but I modified it now so it is clearly visible even for speed readers :) – Honza Zidek Apr 25 '22 at 07:37
  • @harrymc No, I am not asking *how to* circumvent the missing feature, but if there are any public resources documenting why Microsoft decided not to support it out-of-the-box. – Honza Zidek Apr 25 '22 at 12:38
  • There aren't any published documents about internal decisions at Microsoft. They chose to support MSG, not EML, and all the rest is supposition. – harrymc Apr 25 '22 at 13:53
  • Is this actually a question worth asking? If it's a deliberate decision, then what? If it's low priority, then what? – gronostaj Apr 27 '22 at 07:35
  • @gronostaj I was interested if there is any published statement about this decision. EML is a significant format and not supporting the export is not a small thing. – Honza Zidek Apr 27 '22 at 14:24

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According to your description, I have done a lot of search but I didn't find any Microsoft official documents introduced the related information. However, when saving and exporting email, we can find that only the following formats are supported:

Save emails:

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Export emails:

.pst file / .csv file / .opml file

Therefore, it is not difficult to see that there is no one in it Options for EML. I don't think this needs to be tangled, just use the supported format.

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  • it is not difficult to see that there is no one in it Options for EM, indeed! This is just my original statement. That's exactly why I asked my question. – Honza Zidek Apr 27 '22 at 07:21