Spark email - opening .eml attachments

[courboy]

Hi

I have been using the Spark email app for some time, and I prefer it over the standard Mail app by quite some distance. There's on area, however, where I find it very frustrating: opening other email attachments (.eml files).

I often receive emails from people who have attached other emails, but these don't work with the Spark app (either iOS or MacOS). Has anybody else got a solution to this? Right now I have resorted to using the default Mail apps but they're already becoming frustrating again.

thanks

 

[jonblatho]

I was just able to confirm that the stock Mail app on macOS will open an .eml file if you have some account set up. (It doesn’t have to be the same account to which the message in the .eml was sent.) If you don’t intend on using the Mail app, I’d just register some throwaway email account on Gmail or something — that way the “some account” requirement is satisfied and you’re not storing all of your emails twice. I couldn’t get an .eml file to open in the Mail app on iOS, but I’m sure there’s an app available for that.

Or, if you’re of a more technical nature, .eml files are readable — indirectly — by opening them in TextEdit or the editor of your choice. All headers are listed in plaintext, then the actual body of the email is included at the end, Base64-encoded. It’ll look like a bunch of gibberish, like this:

SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkISBUaGUgcXVpY2sgYnJvd24gZm94IGp1bXBzIG92ZXIgdGhlIGxhenkgZG9n
LiBUaGlzIGlzIHdoYXQgYSBCYXNlNjQtZW5jb2RlZCBzdHJpbmcgbG9va3MgbGlrZS4gSGVsbG8s
IHdvcmxkISBUaGUgcXVpY2sgYnJvd24gZm94IGp1bXBzIG92ZXIgdGhlIGxhenkgZG9nLiBUaGlz
IGlzIHdoYXQgYSBCYXNlNjQtZW5jb2RlZCBzdHJpbmcgbG9va3MgbGlrZS4=

If you have some decoding tool available to you — here’s an online one (enable “live mode” if you use that!) — copy and paste the Base64-encoded portion of the file into that and you’ll then have the body content. That might be a pain if the body content is HTML rather than plaintext, though.

Of course, you could script your own solution from that, too, by splitting the .eml file at the empty line (which separates headers from the body) and decoding the Base64-encoded portion into an HTML file which you could then open in the browser of your choice.

 

[Nikita Tanchuk]

Hi there! At the moment Spark indeed doesn't support .eml attachments, however, we have this feature in our app wishlist, if you don't mind sharing your email address I'll add your vote to it and we will gladly notify you if it's going to be implemented.

 

[harriska2]

I use spark on my ipad and love it. Mainly because mail on iOS has really not worked for me for a while. But on the desktop there is a free version that is limited and seems to maybe use the cloud? or subscription. Not really willing to consider subscription.

 

[farf]

I use Spark almost exclusively on my Mac and iOS devices. The one and only time that I fire up Mail on my Mac is to save emails as .eml files to DEVONthink.

 

[farf]

Hi there! At the moment Spark indeed doesn't support .eml attachments, however, we have this feature in our app wishlist, if you don't mind sharing your email address I'll add your vote to it and we will gladly notify you if it's going to be implemented.

I use Spark almost exclusively on my Mac and iOS devices. The one and only time that I fire up Mail on my Mac is to save emails as .eml files to DEVONthink. I would love for this capability to be added to Spark to streamline my workflow. Thanks for such a great email client.

 

[GrumpyCoder]

Always liked the Spark UI. For those knowing, do they still store username and password for email accounts on their own servers? That's when I never touched Spark again and it's a showstopper for most companies when it comes to privacy. Any recent change to this?

 

[jmacs]

Mail.app here with Mail Suite. I just hope it's better on Monterey.. better I mean faster..

 

[floodmeadows]

+1 for adding support for opening .eml files and attachments.

Hi there! At the moment Spark indeed doesn't support .eml attachments, however, we have this feature in our app wishlist, if you don't mind sharing your email address I'll add your vote to it and we will gladly notify you if it's going to be implemented.

Please could you add me to the vote list (andy at floodmeadows dot com)? Many thanks @Nikita Tanchuk

 

[sgtaylor5]

Hi there! At the moment Spark indeed doesn't support .eml attachments, however, we have this feature in our app wishlist, if you don't mind sharing your email address I'll add your vote to it and we will gladly notify you if it's going to be implemented.

sgtaylor AT taylorcomputing DOT biz for another vote. DEVONthink sharing, too, although that might be niche and a stretch.

 

[harj63]

+1 for adding support for opening .eml files and attachments. It's a nuisance to open with Mail.app.

 

[speida]

Hi there! At the moment Spark indeed doesn't support .eml attachments, however, we have this feature in our app wishlist, if you don't mind sharing your email address I'll add your vote to it and we will gladly notify you if it's going to be implemented.

Hello! Any updates on opening (or attaching) .eml files on Spark? It is very strange that a complete and professional client such a Spark after many years of development (I have been a user since one of the first releases) doesn't have it!

 

[damonbrinson]

+1 for opening .eml attachments. Thanks! --> damon [dot] brinson <at> gmail {dot} com.

 

[courboy]

Hi there! At the moment Spark indeed doesn't support .eml attachments, however, we have this feature in our app wishlist, if you don't mind sharing your email address I'll add your vote to it and we will gladly notify you if it's going to be implemented.

Hey, it’s been over two years since I posted that and I still can’t use this facility. it’s really frustrating because Spark is such a great app for everything except this one feature, which is annoying enough to make me use Mail instead of Spark. Do you have any idea where this is on the roadmap and when we it might be updated to feature the functionality?

Thanks!

 

[KG60]

I know this is an old thread, but is there any update on Spark supporting .eml attachments?

 

[michaelhhirsch]

Similar issue. I cannot find a way to attach an existing email to a different email that I'm responding to - seems like this would be fairly basic functionality! Only solution, and not a good one, was to forward the original email to the new recipient, but then you lose the history from the new recipients original email, so you have to cut and paste. Further, and this is even more perplexing, I could't copy the email address of the recipient of the forwarded email, I had to manually type it in - frustrating and opens up the possibility of mistyping the address! HELP!