How do I convert .eml files to PDFs?











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I have almost 300 e-mails in .eml format that I need to convert or print to PDF for legal purposes. Because of that, I have some pretty specific needs:




  1. Must have page numbers.

  2. Must NOT have other headers/footers (especially not the path or current date).

  3. Must NOT show BCC recipients in the printout.

  4. Must have at least to, from, cc, and subject.

  5. Must not display user/profile/account name across the top (a la Microsoft Outlook Memo style)

  6. Filename must be the subject of the email, with some kind of unique index inserted or appended to prevent overwrites.


What I've tried so far (and why it didn't work):





  1. Printing to PDF from Outlook. Always prints with my name at the top.
    I accidentally discovered at home that if you open the files with no
    account set up, you can print them individually with no name. But
    there doesn't seem to be any way to import them into Outlook itself
    to print them all at once, or, at least, in larger batches than one
    at a time. Even if I were inclined to print them one at a time, the
    job name/filename that Outlook seems to default to for print-to-file
    jobs is "Microsoft Outlook -- Memo Style" which is no good.



    Side note: I have access to three different PDF printers at home:
    Microsoft Print to PDF, Foxit Reader, and PDFCreator. MSPTP doesn't
    offer a default filename at all, and the other two use the one I
    mentioned above.



  2. Import them into a Thunderbird local folder using importexporttools add-
    on. This may be my best bet, but the issue that drives me nuts more than
    should be able to use importexporttools again to save the files, en
    masse, to PDF, but any I save to PDF in this way have the default
    headers/footers on them. I have scoured the config files and set up
    inside and outside of Tbird and I cannot for the life of me find
    where it's getting that setting from. The alternative is to save all
    300 one by one by one. But even if I'm up for that, Tbird prints
    either scant headers (I think it consisted of from, date, subject on
    print.show_header = 0) or the whole thing-- there's no inbetween.
    Frustratingly, no difference between "normal" headers (1) and full
    headers (2)-- they both seem to print the full header. So if I go
    this route, I will have to go through and manually remove any BCC
    lines from the PDFs from about half of them, give or take.


  3. (Added since original post) Changing the extension to mht and
    opening in Internet Explorer. Tried opening in Firefox, too, for
    good measure, and Chrome. IE looked good, and the footers and
    headers were formattable, but all the email headers were completely
    missing. Firefox wouldn't even open it, handled it like a download,
    and Chrome it was just the plain text of the body on one long line,
    no formatting, and no headers. Just to cover all my bases, I tried
    the eml files in all three browsers, nothing.



Anyone have any ideas?










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  • if my memory serves me right, you could rename eml file into mht and print them using (the best browser ever) internet explorer... never tried for e-mails from outlook/thunderbird though..
    – Bagus Tesa
    Apr 16 '17 at 7:57















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I have almost 300 e-mails in .eml format that I need to convert or print to PDF for legal purposes. Because of that, I have some pretty specific needs:




  1. Must have page numbers.

  2. Must NOT have other headers/footers (especially not the path or current date).

  3. Must NOT show BCC recipients in the printout.

  4. Must have at least to, from, cc, and subject.

  5. Must not display user/profile/account name across the top (a la Microsoft Outlook Memo style)

  6. Filename must be the subject of the email, with some kind of unique index inserted or appended to prevent overwrites.


What I've tried so far (and why it didn't work):





  1. Printing to PDF from Outlook. Always prints with my name at the top.
    I accidentally discovered at home that if you open the files with no
    account set up, you can print them individually with no name. But
    there doesn't seem to be any way to import them into Outlook itself
    to print them all at once, or, at least, in larger batches than one
    at a time. Even if I were inclined to print them one at a time, the
    job name/filename that Outlook seems to default to for print-to-file
    jobs is "Microsoft Outlook -- Memo Style" which is no good.



    Side note: I have access to three different PDF printers at home:
    Microsoft Print to PDF, Foxit Reader, and PDFCreator. MSPTP doesn't
    offer a default filename at all, and the other two use the one I
    mentioned above.



  2. Import them into a Thunderbird local folder using importexporttools add-
    on. This may be my best bet, but the issue that drives me nuts more than
    should be able to use importexporttools again to save the files, en
    masse, to PDF, but any I save to PDF in this way have the default
    headers/footers on them. I have scoured the config files and set up
    inside and outside of Tbird and I cannot for the life of me find
    where it's getting that setting from. The alternative is to save all
    300 one by one by one. But even if I'm up for that, Tbird prints
    either scant headers (I think it consisted of from, date, subject on
    print.show_header = 0) or the whole thing-- there's no inbetween.
    Frustratingly, no difference between "normal" headers (1) and full
    headers (2)-- they both seem to print the full header. So if I go
    this route, I will have to go through and manually remove any BCC
    lines from the PDFs from about half of them, give or take.


  3. (Added since original post) Changing the extension to mht and
    opening in Internet Explorer. Tried opening in Firefox, too, for
    good measure, and Chrome. IE looked good, and the footers and
    headers were formattable, but all the email headers were completely
    missing. Firefox wouldn't even open it, handled it like a download,
    and Chrome it was just the plain text of the body on one long line,
    no formatting, and no headers. Just to cover all my bases, I tried
    the eml files in all three browsers, nothing.



Anyone have any ideas?










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  • if my memory serves me right, you could rename eml file into mht and print them using (the best browser ever) internet explorer... never tried for e-mails from outlook/thunderbird though..
    – Bagus Tesa
    Apr 16 '17 at 7:57













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I have almost 300 e-mails in .eml format that I need to convert or print to PDF for legal purposes. Because of that, I have some pretty specific needs:




  1. Must have page numbers.

  2. Must NOT have other headers/footers (especially not the path or current date).

  3. Must NOT show BCC recipients in the printout.

  4. Must have at least to, from, cc, and subject.

  5. Must not display user/profile/account name across the top (a la Microsoft Outlook Memo style)

  6. Filename must be the subject of the email, with some kind of unique index inserted or appended to prevent overwrites.


What I've tried so far (and why it didn't work):





  1. Printing to PDF from Outlook. Always prints with my name at the top.
    I accidentally discovered at home that if you open the files with no
    account set up, you can print them individually with no name. But
    there doesn't seem to be any way to import them into Outlook itself
    to print them all at once, or, at least, in larger batches than one
    at a time. Even if I were inclined to print them one at a time, the
    job name/filename that Outlook seems to default to for print-to-file
    jobs is "Microsoft Outlook -- Memo Style" which is no good.



    Side note: I have access to three different PDF printers at home:
    Microsoft Print to PDF, Foxit Reader, and PDFCreator. MSPTP doesn't
    offer a default filename at all, and the other two use the one I
    mentioned above.



  2. Import them into a Thunderbird local folder using importexporttools add-
    on. This may be my best bet, but the issue that drives me nuts more than
    should be able to use importexporttools again to save the files, en
    masse, to PDF, but any I save to PDF in this way have the default
    headers/footers on them. I have scoured the config files and set up
    inside and outside of Tbird and I cannot for the life of me find
    where it's getting that setting from. The alternative is to save all
    300 one by one by one. But even if I'm up for that, Tbird prints
    either scant headers (I think it consisted of from, date, subject on
    print.show_header = 0) or the whole thing-- there's no inbetween.
    Frustratingly, no difference between "normal" headers (1) and full
    headers (2)-- they both seem to print the full header. So if I go
    this route, I will have to go through and manually remove any BCC
    lines from the PDFs from about half of them, give or take.


  3. (Added since original post) Changing the extension to mht and
    opening in Internet Explorer. Tried opening in Firefox, too, for
    good measure, and Chrome. IE looked good, and the footers and
    headers were formattable, but all the email headers were completely
    missing. Firefox wouldn't even open it, handled it like a download,
    and Chrome it was just the plain text of the body on one long line,
    no formatting, and no headers. Just to cover all my bases, I tried
    the eml files in all three browsers, nothing.



Anyone have any ideas?










share|improve this question















I have almost 300 e-mails in .eml format that I need to convert or print to PDF for legal purposes. Because of that, I have some pretty specific needs:




  1. Must have page numbers.

  2. Must NOT have other headers/footers (especially not the path or current date).

  3. Must NOT show BCC recipients in the printout.

  4. Must have at least to, from, cc, and subject.

  5. Must not display user/profile/account name across the top (a la Microsoft Outlook Memo style)

  6. Filename must be the subject of the email, with some kind of unique index inserted or appended to prevent overwrites.


What I've tried so far (and why it didn't work):





  1. Printing to PDF from Outlook. Always prints with my name at the top.
    I accidentally discovered at home that if you open the files with no
    account set up, you can print them individually with no name. But
    there doesn't seem to be any way to import them into Outlook itself
    to print them all at once, or, at least, in larger batches than one
    at a time. Even if I were inclined to print them one at a time, the
    job name/filename that Outlook seems to default to for print-to-file
    jobs is "Microsoft Outlook -- Memo Style" which is no good.



    Side note: I have access to three different PDF printers at home:
    Microsoft Print to PDF, Foxit Reader, and PDFCreator. MSPTP doesn't
    offer a default filename at all, and the other two use the one I
    mentioned above.



  2. Import them into a Thunderbird local folder using importexporttools add-
    on. This may be my best bet, but the issue that drives me nuts more than
    should be able to use importexporttools again to save the files, en
    masse, to PDF, but any I save to PDF in this way have the default
    headers/footers on them. I have scoured the config files and set up
    inside and outside of Tbird and I cannot for the life of me find
    where it's getting that setting from. The alternative is to save all
    300 one by one by one. But even if I'm up for that, Tbird prints
    either scant headers (I think it consisted of from, date, subject on
    print.show_header = 0) or the whole thing-- there's no inbetween.
    Frustratingly, no difference between "normal" headers (1) and full
    headers (2)-- they both seem to print the full header. So if I go
    this route, I will have to go through and manually remove any BCC
    lines from the PDFs from about half of them, give or take.


  3. (Added since original post) Changing the extension to mht and
    opening in Internet Explorer. Tried opening in Firefox, too, for
    good measure, and Chrome. IE looked good, and the footers and
    headers were formattable, but all the email headers were completely
    missing. Firefox wouldn't even open it, handled it like a download,
    and Chrome it was just the plain text of the body on one long line,
    no formatting, and no headers. Just to cover all my bases, I tried
    the eml files in all three browsers, nothing.



Anyone have any ideas?







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  • if my memory serves me right, you could rename eml file into mht and print them using (the best browser ever) internet explorer... never tried for e-mails from outlook/thunderbird though..
    – Bagus Tesa
    Apr 16 '17 at 7:57


















  • if my memory serves me right, you could rename eml file into mht and print them using (the best browser ever) internet explorer... never tried for e-mails from outlook/thunderbird though..
    – Bagus Tesa
    Apr 16 '17 at 7:57
















if my memory serves me right, you could rename eml file into mht and print them using (the best browser ever) internet explorer... never tried for e-mails from outlook/thunderbird though..
– Bagus Tesa
Apr 16 '17 at 7:57




if my memory serves me right, you could rename eml file into mht and print them using (the best browser ever) internet explorer... never tried for e-mails from outlook/thunderbird though..
– Bagus Tesa
Apr 16 '17 at 7:57










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If you have multiple EML files to converted into PDF files along with attachments, then I would recommend you eml to PDF converter which eases the conversion process and allows you to save multiple EML files keeping the folder structure and other associated data intact.



You can check the more info about this at "Solution to Convert Multiple EML Files into PDF Format".






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Here is an open-source tool that converts EML (MIME format) files to PDF. It does so by




parsing (and cleaning) the mime/structure, converting it to html and then using wkhtmltopdf to convert the generated html to a pdf file.




So you could either adapt the conversion process to HTML to your needs, or post-process the generated HTML file before it gets converted to PDF.






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    If you have multiple EML files to converted into PDF files along with attachments, then I would recommend you eml to PDF converter which eases the conversion process and allows you to save multiple EML files keeping the folder structure and other associated data intact.



    You can check the more info about this at "Solution to Convert Multiple EML Files into PDF Format".






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      I don't think this link is valid
      – Pimp Juice IT
      Aug 8 '17 at 13:23















    up vote
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    If you have multiple EML files to converted into PDF files along with attachments, then I would recommend you eml to PDF converter which eases the conversion process and allows you to save multiple EML files keeping the folder structure and other associated data intact.



    You can check the more info about this at "Solution to Convert Multiple EML Files into PDF Format".






    share|improve this answer



















    • 1




      I don't think this link is valid
      – Pimp Juice IT
      Aug 8 '17 at 13:23













    up vote
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    up vote
    0
    down vote









    If you have multiple EML files to converted into PDF files along with attachments, then I would recommend you eml to PDF converter which eases the conversion process and allows you to save multiple EML files keeping the folder structure and other associated data intact.



    You can check the more info about this at "Solution to Convert Multiple EML Files into PDF Format".






    share|improve this answer














    If you have multiple EML files to converted into PDF files along with attachments, then I would recommend you eml to PDF converter which eases the conversion process and allows you to save multiple EML files keeping the folder structure and other associated data intact.



    You can check the more info about this at "Solution to Convert Multiple EML Files into PDF Format".







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      I don't think this link is valid
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      Aug 8 '17 at 13:23














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      I don't think this link is valid
      – Pimp Juice IT
      Aug 8 '17 at 13:23








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    I don't think this link is valid
    – Pimp Juice IT
    Aug 8 '17 at 13:23




    I don't think this link is valid
    – Pimp Juice IT
    Aug 8 '17 at 13:23












    up vote
    0
    down vote













    Here is an open-source tool that converts EML (MIME format) files to PDF. It does so by




    parsing (and cleaning) the mime/structure, converting it to html and then using wkhtmltopdf to convert the generated html to a pdf file.




    So you could either adapt the conversion process to HTML to your needs, or post-process the generated HTML file before it gets converted to PDF.






    share|improve this answer

























      up vote
      0
      down vote













      Here is an open-source tool that converts EML (MIME format) files to PDF. It does so by




      parsing (and cleaning) the mime/structure, converting it to html and then using wkhtmltopdf to convert the generated html to a pdf file.




      So you could either adapt the conversion process to HTML to your needs, or post-process the generated HTML file before it gets converted to PDF.






      share|improve this answer























        up vote
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        down vote










        up vote
        0
        down vote









        Here is an open-source tool that converts EML (MIME format) files to PDF. It does so by




        parsing (and cleaning) the mime/structure, converting it to html and then using wkhtmltopdf to convert the generated html to a pdf file.




        So you could either adapt the conversion process to HTML to your needs, or post-process the generated HTML file before it gets converted to PDF.






        share|improve this answer












        Here is an open-source tool that converts EML (MIME format) files to PDF. It does so by




        parsing (and cleaning) the mime/structure, converting it to html and then using wkhtmltopdf to convert the generated html to a pdf file.




        So you could either adapt the conversion process to HTML to your needs, or post-process the generated HTML file before it gets converted to PDF.







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