How To Macs How to Save Multiple Emails to One File in Mac OS X Mail Share Pin Email Print Macs Tips & Tricks Basics Guides & Tutorials Installing & Upgrading Key Concepts by Heinz Tschabitscher An independent writer who has reviewed hundreds of email programs and services since 1997. Updated September 17, 2018 Emails come in threads and conversations; months and years and folders full. What if you want some of them to go together, too, into a single text file? Mac OS X Mail not only keeps and manages your emails, it lets you save them flexibly as well. Save Multiple Emails to One File in Mac OS X Mail To save more than one message from Mac OS X Mail to a consolidated text file that contains them all: Open the folder containing the messages you want to save in Mac OS X Mail. Highlight the emails you want to save to a single file. Hold down Shift to select a contiguous region.Hold down Command to select disparate emails.You can combine these two methods, too. Select File | Save As… from the menu. If you want a file name different from the subject line of the first selected messages, type it under Save As:. Pick a folder for saving under Where:. Select either Rich Text Format (fully formatted email text) or Plain Text (plain text versions of the email messages) under Format:. Click Save. The text files will include the sender, subject, and recipients as they also appear when you read the messages in Mac OS X Mail. (Saving multiple emails tested with Mac OS X Mail 4 and macOS Mail 10) Continue Reading