# Read an IMAP email and save it to a file
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-an-imap-email-and-save-it-to-a-file/52908
**Category:** General
**Created:** [28 October 2021 19:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-an-imap-email-and-save-it-to-a-file/52908 "2021-10-28T19:25:54Z")
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### Author:  [@crester](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/crester)
#### Post date: [28 October 2021 19:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-an-imap-email-and-save-it-to-a-file/52908/1 "2021-10-28T19:25:54Z")
Hello.
I need to read an e-mail using **e-mail node** and save it RAW to an eml file.
As I receive the json object, I wonder if it is possible to do with this mechanism
Thank you
Regards.
J
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [28 October 2021 20:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-an-imap-email-and-save-it-to-a-file/52908/2 "2021-10-28T20:07:10Z")
You would have to try and reconstruct it from the object, there is no raw feed of the message provided by the underlying library as far as I can tell ([imap - npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/imap))
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### Author:  [@crester](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/crester)
#### Post date: [28 October 2021 21:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-an-imap-email-and-save-it-to-a-file/52908/3 "2021-10-28T21:34:53Z")
difficult to rebuild
Perhaps another way to do avoiding e-mail node?
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [29 October 2021 08:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-an-imap-email-and-save-it-to-a-file/52908/4 "2021-10-29T08:14:30Z")
Probably not, unless you want to manually try and re-implement the IMAP protocol with the TCP node (and that assumes no TLS)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [28 December 2021 08:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/read-an-imap-email-and-save-it-to-a-file/52908/5 "2021-12-28T08:14:45Z")
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