Email to PDF
Turn a saved email into a PDF you can archive, share or submit as a record — sender, recipients, date, message and the original attachments, all in one file.
Mail lives in a mailbox — records need to leave it
An email only exists for as long as the account it sits in. Mailboxes are closed when people leave a company, archives get pruned by retention policies, and the message you will need in three years is rarely the one you thought to flag. Converting a message to PDF takes it out of that dependency: sender, recipients, date, subject, the full text and the original attachments become one self-contained file you can store, share or submit anywhere a document is accepted — a project folder, an HR file, a warranty dispute, a bookkeeping archive — with the attachments carried inside it rather than scattered alongside.
Getting the message out of Outlook first
The tool reads .msg, Outlook's own format, and .eml, nearly everyone else's. The one genuine trap is Outlook's drag behaviour: dragging a message straight from the Outlook window into a browser hands over a virtual object, not a real file — so nothing arrives, here or on any other website. Save the message to your desktop first (drag it there, or use File → Save As) and upload the .msg that appears. Thunderbird, Apple Mail and most other clients produce .eml files that behave normally. Both routes preserve what an archive cares about, including international characters and messages saved by much older Outlook versions.
Emails as records, and building a dossier
For disputes, audits and HR matters, the strength of a PDF copy is that anyone can read it, decades from now, with the evidence attached. Its honest limitation: it is a faithful copy, not a forensic original — the full technical headers that prove a message's route live in the .msg or .eml file, so when something may end up in front of a lawyer, archive the original file alongside the PDF. For everything else the PDF is the working record, and it combines well: convert the relevant messages one by one, then bundle them chronologically with Merge PDF — add the contract and the invoices, and you have a complete case file in a single document.
Where do my attachments go?
They're embedded inside the PDF as real files — open the attachments panel of your PDF reader (the paperclip icon in Adobe Reader and most others) to save them out again, byte-for-byte identical to the originals. The message itself is rendered as clean, plain text: readable and printable, without the original email styling.
How do I save an email as .msg or .eml?
In Outlook, drag the email from your inbox to your desktop first (or File → Save As) — that produces a .msg file, which you then upload here. Dragging an email straight from Outlook into this page does not work: Outlook doesn't hand the browser a real file — that's an Outlook quirk, on every website. Most other mail programs (Thunderbird, Apple Mail, eM Client) save as .eml the same way, and many of those can drag straight in.
Is my email stored anywhere?
No — the message is parsed in server memory to build the PDF and discarded immediately after the response is sent. Nothing is written to disk or logged.
Why does the PDF look plainer than the original email?
Email HTML is notoriously messy, so this tool deliberately renders the text content in a clean, consistent layout instead of trying to replicate every newsletter's styling. What's said, who said it, when, and the attachments — that's what an archive copy needs.
