Learn How to Use MessageExport for Outlook in One Minute

MessageExport for Microsoft Outlook is an add-in that helps you do more with your email messages. Use MessageExport to export, convert, copy and save Outlook emails to different formats, either manually or automatically.  This very short tutorial will get you up and running with MessageExport in about a minute.

 

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How to Convert Microsoft Outlook Email to MHTML Files

The MHTML (also called MHT) file extension refers to MIME HTML documents,  a format for archiving web pages saved by some web browsers, including Internet Explorer and Firefox. 

MHTML files can contain resources like images, flash, java, audio, external links and html code. Unlike HTML files which will reference external file elements, MHT files contain all of elements within a single file.

For archiving, MHT files offers a simple way to ensure ease of access to email content.

There are two easy ways to convert Outlook email to MHT files.  The first is to use Outlook's own capability, which works well for saving single emails to MHT format.  The second is to use MessageExport add-in by Encryptomatic LLC for bulk conversion of multiple Outlook emails to MHT format.

Converting a Single Outlook Email to MHT

Converting individual Outlook emails to MHT format can be done from within Outlook. 
First, select an email you want to convert from Outlook's mail list.

Second, go to File > Save As, and from the dropdown list titled "Save as type," choose "MHT Files."  Click "Save" and your email will be converted to MHT.

Saving Outlook email as a MHT file

Converting Multiple Outlook Email to MHT

MessageExport add-in installs additional export features to Microsoft Outlook's toolbar. You can learn more about MessageExport and download a free 15 day trial from the product's official website.

MessageExport toolbar in Outlook 2013

To convert multiple emails from Outlook to MHT format, select the emails from the Outlook maillist.  To choose all emails, type Control-A. 

Next, from the MessageExport tab, select the "Export to MHT" profile from the drop down list.

Finally, click "Export" to begin converting selected emails to MHT format.

While Outlook defaults to using the subject as the MHT file name, MessageExport will let you define a custom naming structure to the MHT files. This is easily done by editing the MHT profile in MessageExport, and then selecting the email fields that you want included in the file name.

Set a name scheme for MHT files exported from Outlook

If you have any questions about converting Outlook email to MHT, please post them in the comments below, or call Encryptomatic Support, +1-701-566-6731 x2. 

For a tool that works outside of Outlook and can convert different email formats to MHT, see PstViewer Pro. 

How to convert Outlook email that has been saved to your Windows hard drive as .msg files?

Recently we were contacted by a customer who asked if the MessageExport add-in for Microsoft Outlook could be used to export emails that had already been saved to a Windows desktop folder.  The emails were saved as Outlook .msg files, which are individual email messages that contain all of the original email metadata and file attachments.

The MessageExport add-on functions from within Microsoft Outlook. It is designed to enhance Outlook's abilities to export email.  With MessageExport you can save Outlook emails to numerous file formats: pdf, mbox, eml, jpg, csv, and yes, even .msg format.

After those emails have been saved by MessageExport to your hard drive, what else can MessageExport do with them?  Nothing, actually. MessageExport wasn't designed to work independently of Outlook. Being tightly integrated with Microsoft Outlook gives MessageExport powerful advantages, such as being able to take advantage of Outlook rules and search.  But it can't further manipulate the email messages that it has saved outside of Outlook. It just wasn't designed to do that.

But all hope is not lost.

One way to solve the issue of managing email-formatted content outside of Outlook would be to use an email viewer.   Encryptomatic LLC, the developers of MessageExport, also develop PstViewer Pro. It's an email viewer that does not require Microsoft Outlook. PstViewer Pro performs many of the same functions of MessageExport, but it works entirely from outside of Outlook.  Pst Viewer Pro can read Outlook .pst or .ost files. It can also search and convert .msg and .eml email messages.

Pst Viewer software manages Outlook .pst and .msg files

Using PstViewer Pro, our customer could locate the folder containing his .msg emails.  Whether he had just a few, or thousands of them, Pst Viewer Pro would read them individually and organize them into a mail list.   .Msg files can then be sorted and searched using PstViewer Pro's advanced search feature.

Advanced search helps locate important .msg files

 .Msg emails can also be converted to different formats with PST Viewer Pro.  Select the target format from the drop down list, and click the export button. PST Viewer Pro can convert .msg files into .eml, mbox, csv, pdf, and other formats.

If we wanted to convert .msg files into a comma separated values (csv) format, we would first select the messages from the mail list. Then, choose the target format, CSV, from the drop down list. Lastly, click the yellow export button, as shown in the image below.

Convert .msg files to different formats

While MessageExport is an excellent tool for saving email outside of Microsoft Outlook, it was not intended for managing email outside of Outlook. If you have this need, download a free trial of PST Viewer Pro and try it for 15 days.