Guides
Getting email onto paper — the guides
Plain answers to the questions people actually ask. Each one starts with the free route and says where it runs out.
- Save an email as a PDF with its attachments — and why Print-to-PDF loses them
Every mail app will print an email to PDF for free. None of them puts the attachments in it. Here is what each free method gives you and loses, the tip that keeps the attachments matched, and the one-PDF way.
- Open a .msg file on a Mac without Outlook
Someone sent you a .msg file and your Mac has nothing that opens it. What a .msg is, why renaming it doesn't work, the free routes that do, and how to turn it — or a folder of them — into PDFs.
- Convert .eml files to PDF on Mac and Windows — one, or a folder
An .eml file opens in Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Windows Mail or Outlook and prints to PDF for free — for one message that is the answer. Here is where that stops, and how to convert a folder of them with the attachments kept.
- Save Gmail or Outlook emails as PDFs for your records — headers, dates and attachments intact
Gmail's Download message gives you an .eml; Outlook's Save As gives a .msg; the print route loses headers and attachments. Here is how to get email out of both as files, and into PDFs that carry the header block and the attachments.