How To Download Hotmail Folders

Jun 24, 2019  Learn how to easily download a message as an EML email file to your hard disk from Windows Live Hotmail. Learn how to easily download a message as an EML email file to your hard disk from Windows Live Hotmail. Lifewire Save an Email From Hotmail to Your Hard Disk as EML. Save the file to your desktop or any other folder on your hard disk. Remember which folder you’ve saved it to so that you can find the document when you need to; saving to a “Downloads” folder can make this easier. Downloading a file in Hotmail. Once you’ve opened the email, locate the attachment (look for an icon in the email that looks like a paperclip).

How to download hotmail folders into outlook

Emails are securely housed, for the most part, in Windows Live Hotmail and easily accessed through your browser and email program. But what if you want a specific message in a file folder stored together with all a related project's other documents? Or what if you want to share an email in full — including all header lines that simple forwarding in Windows Live Hotmail will cut? Or perhaps you'd like a copy of a message stored on your desktop for easy and convenient access.

In addition to setting up Windows Live Hotmail in a local email program and exporting the email from there, you can also save any message as an .eml file (a plain text file that contains all message's text and details, is opened by many email clients and can be shared easily).

Save an Email from Windows Live Hotmail to Your Hard Disk as an EML File

To create a .eml file copy of a single message in Windows Live Hotmail (for separate archiving, say, or to forward it as an attachment):

  • Open the message you want to save to your hard disk in Windows Live Hotmail.
  • Click the down arrow next to Reply in the message's header area.
  • Select View message source from the menu that comes up.
    • You can also click the right mouse button in the message list and select View message source from the context menu.
  • Press Ctrl-A (Windows and Linux) or Command-A (Mac) to highlight all the message source's text and code.
  • Press Ctrl-C (Windows and Linux) or Command-C (Mac) to copy the highlighted text.
  • See if your browser lets you save the message's source code as an .eml file:
    • Select File > Save As (or your browser's 'save as' command) from the menu in the message source window or tab.
    • Change the file name to [subject].eml or email.eml or something similar.
    • Do make sure the file extension is .eml (instead of .aspx or .html or anything else); if your browser insists on using .html or .htm for saving, continue below.
    • Make sure your browser saves the page source (instead of using, say, the 'Web Archive' format).
    • Save the file to your desktop or any other folder on your hard disk.
  • If saving directly as an .eml file was not possible:
    • Open any plain text editor (such as TextEdit, Notepad or Emacs).
    • Create a new plain text document.
    • Press Ctrl-V (Windows and Linux) or Command-V (Mac) to paste the message's source.
    • Save the document as a plain text file on your Desktop or any other folder with the extension '.eml'.
      • You can use the message subject, for example, for the file name and save a message with the subject 'Sailing next Weekend?' as 'Sailing next Weekend.eml'.

Microsoft Outlook enables you to access and edit your email messages, calendar events and contacts in one interface. If you have a Hotmail account, you can add it to your Outlook settings to download all the folders from the Hotmail server to your version of Outlook. You may be asked to install an additional application to enable the communication between your software and the Hotmail servers.

Step 1

Open the 'Outlook' application by double-clicking on the icon on your desktop or the entry in the 'All Programs' folder.

Step 2

Click the 'File' tab on the menu bar and point to the 'Account Information' entry. Click 'Add Account.'

Step 3

Enter your personal information in the 'Name' field and type your Hotmail address in the 'E-Mail Address' field. This will open the prompt to install the 'Microsoft Outlook Connector.' Click the 'Install Now' button and click 'Run.'

Step 4

Agree to the software terms and click the 'Continue' button to install the Connector and download the Hotmail information to Outlook. Click 'Finish' to close the 'Add New Account' dialogue window.

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