Friday, May 6, 2016

Print New Outlook Emails Automatically

Despite the digital revolution, many offices still run on paper.  Some office processes may find it necessary to print email messages on paper.  Microsoft Office Outlook users can manually print an email message by selecting it and then choosing File > Print.

While Outlook's basic print capabilities are fine for most people, what if you need to print hundreds of emails daily?  Let MessageExport add-in for Outlook by Encryptomatic LLC automate the  printing of your emails and save you time and money.

MessageExport adds new capabilities to Outlook for printing and converting email.  This article will show you how to setup an export profile that will automatically send new Outlook messages to your printer.

MessageExport Toolbar in Microsoft Outlook

How to use MessageExport in Outlook

MessageExport is easy to use. First select the messages you want to convert or print from Outlook's mail list. Next, choose the target format from the MessageExport drop down list.

Note that these items in  the drop down list are called "Export Profiles." You can build new export profiles, or edit the profiles that come standard with MessageExport. We'll talk more about that in a minute.

Finally, click "Export" to start the printing or converting job. This is most basic way to use MessageExport.

Beneath the veneer of MessageExport are other features that you can use to design more complex operations. Lets look now at how we can tell MessageExport to print incoming emails automatically. To do this, we will change some of the settigs for the "Export to Printer" profile.

With "Export to Printer" displayed in the MessageExport toolbar, click the tool icon to edit this profile.

Click the Tools icon to edit the "Export to Printer" profile.


The Settings page for the "Export to Printer" profile opens.

Print Outlook emails as they arrive with MessageExport

Click OK, and now MessageExport will begin printing incoming messages as Outlook receives them.

There are many additional ways to use MessageExport.  For example, if you only want to print new emails to specific folders, change to "Export from" list to "Predefined Folders."

Selecting Outlook folders for printing emails in MessageExport add-in.
You could also use Microsoft Outlook's rules to set specific criteria for moving emails to a select folder, and then have MessageExport automatically print any emails to that folder.

Another useful feature is MessageExport's profile scheduler. Use the scheduler if you prefer to print emails periodically, such as every six hours.

Printing Outlook emails on a schedule

For people who work intensely with Microsoft Outlook and email, MessageExport adds powerful new capabilities to automate work and save time.

Learn more about MessageExport and download a free 15 day trial.







Monday, May 2, 2016

How to Save an Outlook Email as a PDF

While there is a lot of sofware that claims to convert Outlook email messages into PDF files, they vary greatly in their capabilities.  Before purchasing any email-to-PDF software, consider exactly what you need to accomplish.

  • Are you converting one email, or thousands?   
  • Do you want to work from within an email client like Microsoft Outlook, or outside of Outlook in a separate software package? 
  • Do you need to convert email file attachments into the image?
  • Do you prefer to have the file attachments embedded within the PDF document, or extracted from the PDF file?
  • Do you want to convert multiple emails into a single PDF file, or perhaps you even want to append emails to a single PDF document as you discover them?
  • Is it important to give the resulting PDF files a specific file naming structure?
  • Can the software handle emails that are themselves file attachments?

Few affordable windows email conversion software packages can accomplish all of the above tasks reliably.  Here are two that can.

MessageExport add-in for Microsoft Outlook

MessageExport toolbar for MS Outlook with "Export to PDF" selected.
Email to PDF export add-in for Microsoft Outlook


MessageExport by Encryptomatic LLC is a versatile add-in for Microsoft Outlook. It adds many new conversion capabilities to the Outlook menu system.  MessageExport is simple to use. Start by selecting the email in your Outlook mail list that you want to convert.  Next select the target export format from the MessageExport toolbar inside of Outlook.  Finally, click the "Export" button to being the export operation.

MessageExport has many options that let you tweak how it operates.  For example, you can perform automatic email to PDF conversions from Outlook, set file naming criteria, call a batch file to run after the export operation, connect to Microsoft Sharepoint Server, and much more.
MessageExport integration of Windows file system to MS Outlook.
MessageExport is us$79.99 for a single license.  You can try it free for 15 days! Click here to learn more about MessageExport and download a free trial.


PstViewer Pro

PstViewer Pro email viewer screen show with email displayed.
PstViewer Pro converts Outlook email to PDF without Outlook installed on your computer.


PstViewer Pro, also by Encryptomatic LLC includes most of the same capabilities of MessageExport, but functions independently of Microsoft Outlook.

MessageExport not only reads Microsoft Outlook .pst files, but also .ost, mbox, .msg, .eml and .mht files.   It can convert any of those email formats to PDF, as well as mixed email content.

PstViewer Pro organizes your email into an Outlook-like mail list. Search to find the emails you want to convert to PDF and select them in the list.

PstViewer Pro export window showing different email to PDF conversion formats.
Select the PDF export format from Encryptomatic PstViewer Pro's list.

From the "Export" tab, choose the PDF export profile that is best suited to your needs, or create a new one. Finally, click the "Export" button to start the conversion process.

PstViewer Pro is us$69.99 after a 15 day free trial.  Learn more about PstViewer Pro and download the free trial.




Monday, February 22, 2016

How to Bulk Convert Outlook Emails to .MBOX format.




MBOX is a useful open document format for containing email messages. It is commonly used in email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird.  Microsoft Outlook shunned MBOX for a proprietary database file known as .PST, or personal storage tables, and does not support exporting email to MBOX.

This oversight has been addressed by developers at Encryptomatic LLC with the introduction of MessageExport, a Microsoft Outlook add-in that integrates powerful export extensions to the Outlook toolbar.  MessageExport is compatible with Windows versions of Outlook, from Outlook 2016 through 2007.


Screen shot showing the MessageExport toolbar in Outlook 2016 with the "MBOX" export format selected.
Convert Outlook Email to MBOX with MessageExport add-in.

Bulk Converting Outlook Email to MBOX

Step 1.  Download and install the MessageExport add-in and restart Outlook.
MessageExport is available as a 15 day free trial.   After installing, it will integrate with the Outlook menu system.  In Outlook 2016 you will find it in a tab called "MessageExport."

Step 2.  Choose the "Export to MBOX" profile.
From the MessageExport dropdown list select "export to mbox."  In addition to MBOX, there are other formats you can convert email to, including PDF, CSV, DOCx, and many others. The export profile displayed in the list is the active conversion format.

Step 3.  Select Emails from the Outlook Mail list
Highlight one or more emails in the Outlook mail list.  To select all emails, type "Control-A."
You can also highlight a folder if you want to export all email in that folder to MBOX.  Any email message that is highlighted will be converted to MBOX when we start the operation.

Step 4.  Click MessageExport's "Export" button to start the operation.
Please note that the trial version of MessageExport is limited to converting 50 emails in a single export operation.  This restriction is removed after registration and you will be able to convery any number of emails to an MBOX file.

Windows file folder where MBOX file will be saved.
Select the Windows folder where MessageExport will save your MBOX file.


When the operation is complete, you will find a MBOX file containing your emails in the location you specified.

We hope this article has been useful in showing you how to take your email from Outlook to MBOX. If you have any follow up questions, please post them below. We'll be glad to help.