I just got an email with about 40 inlined images (not attachments) and noticed Gmail doesn’t have an option to save them all locally! If the images were attachments Gmail has a very nice Download All option where you get a zip file of everything, but no such option exists for inline images. Apparently Yahoo! Mail has had this feature for years but in Gmail you have to right-click and Save As for each individual image. A plethora of threads on Google Groups offer no resolution.

Somewhere I did see a mention of enabling POP and downloading the email in Thunderbird and saving images from there, but that’s a pretty huge hassle to get around this limitation. Gmail is still the best email service in existence of course but hopefully they can enable the Download All function for inlines as well as attachments.