Hi Charles,

If you are using Firefox then Alt+F will bring up the File menu, even if it isn't normally visible.

You can then choose 

"Save Page As..."

This usually has the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+S, but this may be overridden by email web application shortcuts.

Saving the page will result in a .html file and a directory, with names such as:

Name of Some Page.html (file)
Name of Some Page_files (directory)

Opening the file ending in .html causes the page to be reconstructed locally in the browser from the resources saved in the corresponding directory, which reflects your view at the time of saving.  

You then have a WYSIWYG copy, though "WYSIWYG" in this context refers to some extent to the way your webmail provider formats things, as well as features intrinsic to the email. 

Printing or saving this to a PDF may be useful.

There was a move to make email content dynamic a few years ago and I'm not sure what happened with that, in terms of adoption, so a saved page may not necessarily always reproduce the precise original content after some time.  Some providers shunned the idea.  By way of background, please see for example:

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-is-your-electronic-memory/
https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail
https://amp.dev/about/email

Please let me know if any queries.

Best wishes,
Gareth


On Tue 26 Sep 2023, at 23:22, charles meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My esteemed listmates,
>
> This is a very serious.
>
> Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as
> I scroll down the page  I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in
> :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard drive.
>
> I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work.
>
> If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail
> account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and
> forty.
>
> That doesn't work with this gmail exchange.
>
> I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I
> screen down to capture the WYSIWYG.
>
> In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles
> a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all
> the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case.
>
> Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF?
>
> Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help.
>
> Charles.
>
> Charlotte County Public Library