# E-mails within e-mails!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-within-e-mails/737635>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 15, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-within-e-mails/737635 "2015-11-15T17:11:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-within-e-mails/737635/1 "2015-11-15T17:11:41Z")

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How do I get to these on a smartphone? Until I got this phone I never heard of e-mails in “tandem,” so to speak, before!  
How does this happen?

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/e-mails-within-e-mails/737635/2 "2015-11-15T17:27:52Z")

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Did someone forward you an email from an existing thread? Some email clients will embed emails as .eml files, or inline them, or both, when they’re forwarded.