This does seem to be an overlay, and the underlying HTML for the email can be viewed in the browser's View Source feature (Ctrl+U in most cases), apparently even if logged out. Though not an ideal solution, you may be able to make some use of it.


On Wed 27 Sep 2023, at 01:31, Gareth Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Grr, apologies, this doesn't seem to work for gmail, which says the 
> account is unavailable on reloading the saved page.
>
> On Wed 27 Sep 2023, at 01:17, Gareth Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 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