What happens to the email body when I email a file to Enoch File?

Say your insurance adjuster sends you an estimate for the damage to your car. You want the PDF in your file cabinet, so you forward the email from your account to your Enoch File inbound email address. What happens to the message itself — the note the adjuster wrote — after the file is saved?

The default: attachment kept, body discarded

By default, Enoch File saves the attachment under its original filename and discards everything else. The email body is never read, stored, or used for anything. Unlike some services, we don’t scan your email content or feed it to an AI.

For a lot of forwarded emails, that’s exactly what you want. If the adjuster’s note simply said “Here’s the estimate I promised you,” losing the body costs you nothing.

When the body matters: the -ALL suffix

Sometimes the message itself carries information worth keeping — a follow-up appointment with the body shop, a claim number, a rep’s direct extension. In those cases, add -ALL to the end of your subject line before you forward or send the email. That tells Enoch File to save the body along with any attachments.

The body is saved as a plain text file, so any formatting like fonts, colors, and embedded images is dropped — but the words themselves are preserved. The text file and your attachment(s) land together in a folder inside your Unfiled Drawer, and the folder takes its name from the email’s subject line.

Which one should you use?

There’s no wrong answer — it depends on the email. For a quick forward where the attachment is the whole point, skip the suffix. For anything where the sender’s note adds context you’ll want later, use -ALL and get both.

For the full walkthrough on emailing files to Enoch File, including where to find your inbound email address, see How to Email a File to Enoch File.