Creating Custom Email Export Profiles with MessageExport

MessageExport add-in for Microsoft Outlook brings new features to the Outlook toolbar interface, making it easy to save emails in different formats, and in different ways.   Although MessageExport is highly functional right out of the box, sometimes you may find that you have an 'edge case' for exporting emails that requires a custom profile.

To be clear, export profiles are stored sets of instructions that cause MessageExport to perform specific tasks, like exporting a message to PDF, giving the PDF file a specific name, and then copying it some where on your hard drive.  You select the active export profile by choosing from the MessageExport drop down toolbar.

 

 In this article, we will show you how to invoke the MessageExport profile wizard so you can build our own custom profile.  To invoke the wizard, click the wizard button in the MessageExport toolbar. The location of the wizard button is shown in the below image.

Click "Next" to continue progressing through the wizard. The next screen lets you select the conversion format.  For example, if you want to export Outlook emails to Tiff image format, then choose TIFF from the drop down list.

Click Next to go to the next screen.  

 

Naming Schema Settings is where you choose the email data that is used to provide a name to exported emails.  The currently selected fields appear on the right.  Using the arrow buttons, you can remove fields you don't want, and add fields that you do want.  You can also add "constructors" to the name, which are characters like hyphen or underscore which help make the file name more readable.

Click next again to go to the Output Folder screen.

During an export operation, you may want to choose where MessageExport saves the converted emails.  The wizard lets you store a pre-defined Windows folder in the export profile.  You can also choose to be prompted for a location at the start of the export operation.

Click next to advance the wizard. 

Congratulations! You have completed making your first MessageExport profile. Click finish and your new profile will now appear in the main MessageExport drop down list.

You can always edit the profile (or any profile) by choosing the profile in the list and then clicking the Edit button in the MessageExport toolbar.

If you have any questions about creating MessageExport email export profiles, post them below or contact the Encryptomatic LLC support team.

Bulk Export Outlook Email to PDF Documents.

Expand Outlook's Email Export Abilities with MessageExport Plug-In

For heavy users of Microsoft Outlook, being able to save emails to different file formats can be a frustrating endeavor. Out of the box, Outlook offers very few options for converting email.  

Outlook Email Export Options Are Limited

Our MessageExport plug-in for Outlook solves that problem by integrating many useful email conversion options directly into the Outlook menu system, including options for email-to-PDF conversion.

MessageExport plug-in for Outlook

Using MessageExport is straight forward. Just highlight the emails or the email folder you want to convert.  Choose one of the PDF export options, then click the "Export" button.

MessageExport can convert a single email message to PDF, or thousands. 

Among the PDF options supported in MessageExport is the "Single PDF" option, allowing many emails to be saved to one PDF document.  Best practice is to keep the PDF file size manageable, below five gigabytes. We recommend saving no more than 100 emails to a single PDF, however, this limit is not enforced in the software. 

MessageExport also includes the PDF/A ISO 19005-1 standard for email archiving using PDF.

You can install and try MessageExport free for 15 days, with no obligation.  Download the free trial for Windows 10.  After the trial is expired, you can continue to use MessageExport to convert single emails, even after the expiration of the bulk email conversion option offered in the trial.

For more information or for assistance with installing or uninstalling MessageExport, or for bulk licensing information,  please reach out to us at sales@encryptomatic.com, or open a help ticket at https://www.encryptomatic.com/support/

How to Extract Outlook Emails to MBOX Format with MessageExport

If you are migrating away from Microsoft Outlook, you may want to bring all or some of your Outlook messages to your new email client.   MBOX (RFC-4155) is an open email file format and is compatible with most Outlook alternative clients.  

Outlook emails are stored as PST/OST files. The MBOX email storage format is not natively supported by Outlook, which makes migrating your emails to Thunderbird or other email clients nearly impossible.

MessageExport is an Outlook add-in by Encryptomatic LLC that vastly expands Outlook's ability to save emails in different formats. Among the many new formats that MessageExport adds to Outlook is MBOX.  

Using MessageExport

MessageExport add-in works with Outlook 365/2019/2016/2013/2010.  A free trial is available that will allow you to use the add-in free for 15 days.  Following the free trial, MessageExport will continue working, allowing individual email exports.

You can use MessageExport to select multiple emails, or even an Outlook folder, and then export those emails to a single MBOX file.

To use MessageExport, first choose MBOX from the drop down list.

Next, select the emails you want to export to MBOX.

Now click the "Export" button.

 

Select Emails to Export, Choose MBOX, and Click Export Button

The result is that your chosen Outlook emails have been saved to a single MBOX file which you can now import to another email client.

Other Formats Added to Outlook

In addition to MBOX, MessageExport brings other new formats to Microsoft Outlook, including:

PDF, PDF/A, Single PDF, MSG, EML, HTML, MHT, TXT, JPG, GIF, TIF, CSV, and bulk exporting to printers, exporting email file attachments, zip, and more.

If you have any questions about using MessageExport to save Outlook email to MBOX, please post them in the comments or email us at supportline@encryptomatic.com

For more information on MessageExport including pricing, visit the official MessageExport home page.