What is an EML file?
An EML file is a saved email. Headers, a blank line, then a MIME body. Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail write .eml. Gmail’s Show original is the same text without the filename. Drop that file here when you need the MIME tree, transfer encoding, and Authentication-Results, not only the pretty message.
How to open an EML file
- Outlook: File → Save As → Outlook Message Format - Unicode (*.eml), or drag the message to a folder
- Thunderbird: File → Save As → File, or drag from the message list
- Apple Mail: File → Save As, choose Raw Message Source, or drag to Finder
- Gmail: Open the message → More → Show original → copy, or Download original
- Here: drop the file on the page, or paste the source and click View EML
Headers that matter for delivery
Start with Authentication-Results (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), the Received hop list, Return-Path, and Message-ID. Encoded subjects use RFC 2047 (=?UTF-8?Q?...?=). Those decode automatically so the overview is readable.
Attachments are usually Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64. Decode a lone payload in the Base64 Encoder and Decoder. Messy HTML from a campaign can go through the HTML Beautifier. Network traces of how the message was fetched belong in the HAR File Viewer.
Treat saved messages as sensitive
An EML document can hold personal addresses, invoice PDFs, reset links, and internal hostnames in Received lines. The file never leaves this tab. Still, turn on Redact addresses before you copy headers into a ticket, and keep Remote images off unless you want tracking pixels to load.