How to Send Multiple Emails As Attachments in Gmail
Forwarding emails is an easy way to keep multiple parties up to date on important conversations, but before, you could only forward one message at a time to Gmail. Now things are changing – for better or for worse if your friends and family love to blast you with annoying chain messages, as Gmail now allows you to attach multiple emails as attachments to other emails.
Sending emails as email attachments may seem confusing (or even overkill), but it’s incredibly easy to do:
- Log into Gmail on your desktop and compose a new message.
- Click and drag the emails you want to attach from the inbox to the email draft window like in the Google animated GIF above. Alternatively, you can also click to highlight the message in your Inbox, then click the three-dot icon at the top of your Inbox and select Send as Attachment.
- All messages in the thread will be converted to .eml files and attached to your draft as attachments. If you scroll to the bottom of the draft, you will see that they are all listed as separate files, and you can rename and delete them like any other Gmail attachment. You can import these files into almost any email client; the recipient doesn’t need to use Gmail to read them.
The ability to send emails by email is still spreading to users, so if you can’t get this work to work yet, you’ll soon be able to play with it. In the meantime, please forward this post to your first five contacts immediately, or you will be out of luck for seven years.