Saving email with attachments together

I am running leopard on an iMac. I am a recent convert to Mac from the PC, and since I get a lot of emails with attachments, I simply want to save the email and attachment as one entity, as I used to do on my PC. It is very important that I be able to easily know which attachments came with which email. Ideally I would like to retrieve a saved email from a folder, open it, and also see the attachments. Currently, when I try to save an email that contains attachments, I go to File and pull down SAVE AS... A box pops up asking me for the location and it also contains a box at the bottom for me to check if I also want to save the attachments. I check the box, but no attachments are saved. I can go under File and pull down to Save Attachments, and it will save them to wherever I want, but I need the email and attachments together as one unit, for later retrieval. SO CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT I AM DOING WRONG HERE ??

Ok, first your attachments in Leopard Mail are saved in homefolder/library/Mail Downloads, so whatever you do, do not delete attachments in that folder.
Second, if you have an IMAP account, go to mail>preferences>accounts>advanced... and make sure that for "keep copies of messages for offline viewing" the option "all messages and their attachments" is chosen.
Third, where are you trying to save these emails, outside of Leopard Mail? I would suggest you save them within Leopard Mail, in mailboxes you will have created for that effect - to create a mailbox go to mailbox>new mailbox, choose the location you want to create the mailbox in as in under your IMAP account, or on your mac, and choose a name for your mailbox. Once that mailbox is created, you can move the emails you want to keep by either selecting the email(s), dragging and dropping in the mailbox you want to keep them, or you can right click and move to, or you can go to message>move to...
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