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GrahamG
2011-10-24T15:12:52Z

Is there anything VC which will extract the attachments from an eml file.

We are recieving emails from a client, which contains an email from where I need to extract the attachments.

When VC, via the email trigger extracts the email, we are left with the eml file.

Thanks

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2011-10-24T18:20:36Z
Not right now. Moving this topic to feature requests.
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Walsh smith
2021-12-27T12:00:37Z
There are multiple third-party tools available on the internet, you just need to find the right solution. This software maintains the original folder structure from EML file and emails metadata like to, cc, bcc, date-time, subject & attachments. I have used the EML Extractor tool when I required the same issue and got an accurate result.

Visit at: https://www.osttopstapp....ttachment-extractor.html 
Jonah Scott
2025-10-10T05:32:50Z
Extracting attachments from .eml files can seem tricky—but it doesn’t have to be. You can parse and extract them using email clients or scripts, and there are tools specifically built for this task. A helpful walkthrough is available in this blog post: “Extract Attachments from EML Files ” on the Cigati Solutions blog. The article provides step-by-step guidance and tool recommendations to safely retrieve all embedded files. If you’re working with large batches of .eml files or need automation, it’s particularly useful—worth checking out if you’re frequently handling email archives.
lauren lee
2026-07-15T12:54:25Z
If you have just a few .eml files, open each email in an email client and manually save the attachments. That’s fine for small batches but it’s quickly frustrating when you have hundreds of emails to deal with because it takes a lot of time and it’s easy to miss files. I had this exact issue when exporting old emails from Thunderbird. Instead of opening every message one by one, I tried Mailvare Free EML Attachment Extractor. It let me pull attachments from multiple .eml files at once and even filter the file types I actually needed, which saved a lot of unnecessary work. One thing I'd suggest is keeping a copy of the original .eml files before extracting anything just in case you need to refer back to the original emails later.
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