Drag and Drop emails to the desktop

When I select an email and try to drag it to the desktop nothing happens.
This is possible in Entourage. Is it possible in Mail?
Am I doing something wrong?
PBG4 12, 2 iMacs G5 (20 & 17)   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

Thanks for your response.
I did know about that method of saving messages. It seems to be long and tedious especially if you want to drag(save) serveral messages at the same time.
Seems with Apple always touting ease of use, Entourage has the one up on Mail in this case.
Felipe
PBG4 12, 2 iMacs G5 (20 & 17)   Mac OS X (10.4.4)  

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