Can iOS open .eml files?

I am trying to open a .eml attachment sent to my iPad using the default mail app, but when I click it, mail says it cannot open that kind of attacment. I am just wondering whether it is a corruption of the attachment, or whether the app just cannot handle that extension. I don't believe it is corruption, as I can open the attacment fine using the iCloud webmail service, but I just want to know before requesting that it is sent in a different manner.


Thanks in advance.

iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Feb 4, 2012 2:58 AM

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Aug 13, 2012 1:19 PM in response to chcn

I will add that it still doesn't work in 5.1.1. I sure hope they had this on the iOS 6 list.


Interestingly, in a Microsoft Exchange account, I can consistently see attached emails, but still not like you would hope or expect. Instead of appearing as an attachment that you would tap on, an attached email appears appended immediately to the bottom of the main/parent email, with no header information at all, so you don't know who it is from, when it was sent, etc. This is marginally better than the behaviour in IMAP accounts, but not much.

Mar 20, 2012 5:02 PM in response to drewmunn

This has been annoying me for a long time now. I just sent feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.htmlagain.



"This issue has been around since 3.1, and it is *still* not fixed:


When I receive an email message with an attached email in .eml (rfc/822) format, iPhone Mail cannot open the attachment. In fact, it does not appear as an attachment at all; there are just some garbled bits of headers that appear after the main message. This happens when I send an attached email from Novel GroupWise 8, as well as from SquirrelMail Webmail version: 1.5.2 [SVN]."


According to this page, it once worked fine (v. 3.0). Frankly, I don't remember. But whether or not it ever open the attachment, support has gotten worse, not better, because not it doesn't even show up as an attachment for me.

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