Combining 20 emails into one?
May 3, 2011 4:34 PM Subscribe
Is there any way to forward a bunch of emails in just one email in Gmail? I have to forward about 20 emails to a fact-checker and would rather send it as one file, rather than 20.
There should be a way to send them all as attachments -- I've seen this done. Not sure if gmail's web version supports this or if you need to download a client.
posted by J. Wilson at 4:59 PM on May 3, 2011
posted by J. Wilson at 4:59 PM on May 3, 2011
This is a hack but it works on a Mac, and I suspect there's a variation for Windows.
View each email. Under more options, select print. Print to a PDF.
Create a new email, attach all the PDFs, and send it to your fact checker.
posted by zippy at 5:31 PM on May 3, 2011
View each email. Under more options, select print. Print to a PDF.
Create a new email, attach all the PDFs, and send it to your fact checker.
posted by zippy at 5:31 PM on May 3, 2011
By the way, the above allows you to send one email, but with many files attached. If you want, after saving the PDFs but before attaching them, you can select them in the finder and then say File - Compress items. That will put them in a single zip file called Archive.zip (if there are multiple items, otherwise it's just called .zip) that you can then attach to the email.
posted by zippy at 5:35 PM on May 3, 2011
posted by zippy at 5:35 PM on May 3, 2011
If you go the PDF route and have a PDF maker (like Acrobat) that can add pages to your PDFs, just add each page in order, then you only have one file, that most likely doesn't need to be zipped.
posted by xingcat at 5:57 PM on May 3, 2011
posted by xingcat at 5:57 PM on May 3, 2011
If all of the e-mails are in the same conversation, it's easier...
posted by eleanna at 6:06 PM on May 3, 2011
posted by eleanna at 6:06 PM on May 3, 2011
Forward all the messages to yourself with the same subject line (so they become one thread). Then open the conversation and use Gmail's awesome "Forward All" feature (located in the right-hand text menu right under the "Newer/ Older" browsing buttons").
To make it easier for the fact-checker to copy-paste from or read the messages, you can temporarily change your Gmail settings so that forwarded messages aren't indented or marked with ">." That should make all messages show up together pretty neatly.
posted by Sifleandollie at 10:31 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
To make it easier for the fact-checker to copy-paste from or read the messages, you can temporarily change your Gmail settings so that forwarded messages aren't indented or marked with ">." That should make all messages show up together pretty neatly.
posted by Sifleandollie at 10:31 AM on May 4, 2011 [1 favorite]
I have my MS Outlook set up to check my gmail. Outlook does have the click-a-bunch to select & then one-click forwarding feature.
posted by Ys at 5:47 PM on May 10, 2011
posted by Ys at 5:47 PM on May 10, 2011
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posted by Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell at 4:50 PM on May 3, 2011