How to forward email as an attachment from Outlook

Instead of just forwarding email content, if you want forward email as an attachment from OutlookHere’s what you need to do. This tutorial explains how to transfer an email as an attachment from Outlook.com and Outlook for computer. Although the Outlook app has a dedicated option, you can’t find any direct options in Outlook.com.

Many times you may have to forward an email to someone. It may be related to a spam, fraudulent email investigation, or anything else. If you forward the email as people usually do, it will not contain the routing information, header and other relevant elements. In this case, you must forward an email attachment so that the recipient receives a .eml file.

Forward an email as an attachment from the Outlook app

To forward an email as an attachment from the Outlook app, follow these steps:

1. Select the email you wish to send as an attachment
2. Click on the More menu in the Reply section
3. Select the option Transfer as attachment
4. Enter the recipient’s email address
5. Click the Send button.

To get started, you need to open the Outlook app on your Windows PC and select an email that you want to send as an attachment. It can only contain text, an image or something else. Then you have to make sure that you are in the Home tongue. If yes, find the More button in the Reply and select Send as an attachment option.

If you are using the most recent versions of Outlook, including Outlook for Office 365, you will get this option in the Reply section. However, if you are using an older version of Outlook (Outlook 2003 and 2007), you must access Actions> Transfer as attachment. You can also press Ctrl + Alt + F buttons together. It does the same job, but the options placements are different.

After that, you can find a pop-up window where you can write the recipient’s email address, change the default subject line, compose the body of the email, etc. Finally, click on the To send button to get the job done.

If you want to do the same when using Outlook.com, you should know that there is no direct option to do so. This implies that you cannot find a dedicated option or button in Outlook.com as the Outlook desktop application provides to users. However, it is possible to send an email attachment from Outlook.com, and the process is mentioned below.

Always forward an email as an attachment from the Outlook app

If you still want to forward an email attachment, you can make a simple change in the settings panel of the Outlook app. It’s pretty easy and doesn’t take much time as well. It’s handy when you have to send tons of emails as attachments to someone. Instead of following the steps mentioned above to send only one email attachment at a time, you can make this setting to do it automatically. The best thing is that you don’t need any third party service for this.

1. Go to File> Options
2. Go to Mail
3. Scroll down to the Responses and Transfers section
4. Select the option Attach original message
5. Save your change

Open the Outlook application on your computer and go to File> Options. In the pop-up window, click on the Mail tab and scroll down to the Responded and transmits section.

Here you can find a drop down menu named When forwarding a message. You must select Attach original message in the list and click on the Okay to save the change.

Forward an email as an attachment from Outlook.com

To forward an email as an attachment from Outlook.com, follow these steps:

1. Compose a new email in Outlook.com
2. Browse the email you want to send as an attachment on your left
3. Use the drag-and-drop technique to convert it to an email attachment
4. Fill in the necessary sections to send the email

At first, you need to log into your Microsoft account on the Outlook.com website. After that, compose a new email by clicking on the New message button. It should open the composition window as it usually does on the web version of Outlook.

Now you need to select the email you want to send as an attachment. If you are using Outlook’s default appearance, you should find the mailing list on your left. Once you’ve received the email, you need to click on it, hold the mouse, drag it to the body section of the email, and drop it accordingly.

You should now find an attachment in your new email. Then you can enter the recipient’s email address, add a subject line, write something in the body of the email and click on the To send button.

That’s all! I hope you find this tutorial useful.

Then read: How to attach and send emails as attachments in Gmail.