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  • For me, the person having to read the email, one of the annoying things about “see attached letter” is that I have to do at least one extra mouse click and sometimes several mouse clicks just to get the attachment opened and scrolled upwards or downwards to the desired page. For the employee of my firm who has to save the email to the client folder on our server, the “see attached letter” means a dozen extra mouse clicks as the email itself has to be saved and the attachment has to be saved. (Sometimes we will use an EML storage format that saves the attachment without requiring extra mouse clicks.)
    Carl Oppedahl, Dontcha just hate "see attached letter"?, Ant-like Persistence, Sept. 13, 2014.

    EML is a file extension for an e-mail message saved to a file in the MIME RFC 822 standard format by Microsoft Outlook Express as well as some other email programs.

    EML files can contain plain ASCII text for the headers and the main message body as well as hyperlinks and attachments.

    EML files may be exported for the purposes of archiving and storage or scanning for malware. The Nimda virus is known to create EML files. When EML files are found as an included attachment it is good practice to scan with anti virus before opening.

    EML File FormatWhatIs.com, last updated July 2010.

    March 1, 2016