How to download emails from Microsoft Outlook – Easy Steps

Email services tend to offer almost unlimited storage space. Your emails can stay online, in your inbox or archived, for years. The emails themselves are small unless they have attachments. Email services will typically limit the size of an attachment, so generally speaking, emails are small and easy to store for the long term.

While the emails remain online in an easy to retrieve format, you can also download them as files. An email message, when downloaded, contains the original message and attachments, and includes information about the sender, recipient, origin of the email, and more.

Download emails from Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a web-based email service and desktop application. The desktop application can connect to any email service and retrieve messages from it. Both the web service and the desktop application allow users to download the emails they receive.

Download emails from Microsoft Outlook – web

To download emails from Outlook web, you need to attach a message to a new email and send it to yourself. You can then download the attached file.

1. Opened Outlook web.
2. Look for the message you want to download (Make sure it’s visible in the inbox column.)
3. Click New message.
4. Click and drag the message in the Inbox column and drop it on the new message.
5. Add a recipient, and subject, and send it.
6. Assuming you have sent the message to yourself, you can download it as an EML file like any other attachment.

Download emails from Microsoft Outlook – desktop

Downloading an email from the Microsoft Outlook desktop application is much simpler than the web application, but the message is saved in the MSG format and must be converted to the universal EML format that all email clients can open.

1. Opened Outlook on your desktop.
2. Double click on the message. want to download.
3. The message Open in a new window.
4. In the new window, go to File> Save As.
5. Save the message in the MSG format.

6. Visit the MSG to EML web application.
7. Upload the MSG file and click the download button.
8. Save the EML file.

conclusion

Emails can be saved, regardless of the service on which it is received or in which application you are viewing it. Gmail makes the process a lot easier than Outlook, but Gmail is really just an email service. If you are using Outlook, the web app and its ability to attach an email to another email is possibly the easiest way to download a message. You can also forward the message to other email services or configure it with a different email client. The message will remain unchanged and will be fully downloaded.