How to simply view .eml files without bringing into Mail

Looking for an app that can view an *.eml file (and *.msg would be nice, too). They don't need to be well-formatted, as all I need is to select some text and graphics.


Sure, I could just add them to a mailbox, but I thought I'd check. I read where someone made a fake email account and just went past all the warnings about servers and such not working, but that didn't work because any of those (few) I tried demanded that they work properly first.


Oddly enough, QuickLook sees the top of an email (from, to, subject, date, and time) very well, but that's it.


The way it would work is simple: I double-click (or right-click) the email (*.eml) file, and this app shows it so that I can select text and graphics. (For what it's worth, 99.99% the graphics I need are inline. The few that are attachments are already separate files anyway.)



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Posted on Dec 8, 2025 12:23 PM

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How to simply view .eml files without bringing into Mail

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