MessageExport Extends the Email Export Abilities of Microsoft Office Outlook, and It's Free to Try.

MessageExport by Encryptomatic LLC is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook. It extends the email export capabilities of Microsoft Outlook, enabling you to save Outlook emails to many different formats, in many different ways.  Save emails to PDF documents, PNG or GIF files,  or even to other email formats like EML or MBOX.  You can save emails as a HTML web page, or send them to a printer. 

There are so many ways you can process and convert emails right inside of Outlook that it can be difficult to explain all of the different ways you can use it to efficiently work with emails.

MessageExport comes with many useful export profiles to perform common export tasks.  But it is also easy to create your own export profiles to do more complex and tedious tasks, and they can run automatically. 

Think of MessageExport as an Outlook email toolkit. You can combine the tools in MessageExport in an unlimited number of ways.  For example, say you want to save all emails from bob@company.com to a shared project folder.  There's several steps you could combine using Outlook's rules and MessageExport to make this happen in the manner that you need.  You could have Outlook Rules copy all emails from bob@company.com to a designated Outlook folder.  Then, create a MessageExport "export profile" that automatically monitors this designated Outlook folder every 15 minutes (or however many minutes you want); when a new email is found, MessageExport can perform a series of events, such as converting the email and its file attachments into a PDF document, giving the PDF document a special name using metadata from the email, then copying the pdf document to a hard drive folder.

MessageExport exports individual emails, bulk selected email messages, and even Outlook folders.

If you have been struggling to automate tedious Outlook tasks, try the full capabilities of MessageExport free for 15 days.  Contact our support team using the live chat button with any questions you have.  

Following the free trial, leave it installed! You can still use it to convert individual emails to PDF.

Learn more about MessageExport from the author's website.

Saving Outlook Emails to a Single PDF File

Very few software applications will allow you to export multiple Outlook email messages directly to a single PDF file.  MessageExport is an add-in for Outlook that performs this task easily. Although this capability is not unlimited, since PDF files have a hard cap on file size, MessageExport is able to meet the 'single pdf' needs of most of its users.

First, why would anyone want to export multiple emails into one very large PDF file?  When working with a quantity of emails, preparing email for a special purpose such as litigation, or archiving emails, a single pdf offers the convenience of transportability and organization when compared to managing multiple smaller PDF files.  Organizing emails into a single PDF file makes it easy to share and store messages.

Using MessageExport is straightforward. Just select your email messages from the Outlook mail list, choose the "export profile" you want such as "Export to Single PDF," and then click the blue Export button.

MessageExport Add-in installed for Outlook 2010

Encryptomatic LLC, the developers of MessageExport, have made the software very flexible. While it will likely accomplish 95% of what you need right out of the box, you can edit any of its operational settings.  As an example, the export profile called "Singe PDF - attachments saved to disk," can be edited, changed, or you can build your own export profile. This gives you a lot of flexibility to organize routine tasks and save time.

As another example, you could also choose to build a new export profile that runs at a regular interval to export new emails into a single pdf file, then adds it to a password protected zip file, gives it a special name, copies it to a Sharepoint library, and then executes a shell command. While most people will not need to do this, this powerful functionality is built into every copy of MessageExport.

Export profiles can also be saved to an xml file, and then imported into another copy of MessageExport. This makes it easy for an administrator or power user to design a complex profile and then share it with other users.

The best way to experience the power of MessageExport is to download a free trial and use it for 15 days. The only limitation of the trial is a 50-email batch processing limit.  After the trial is completed, don't uninstall MessageExport!  It will revert to "free" mode, and continue to let you to export individual email messages to PDF, GIF, TIF, PNG, BMP, MSG, EML and other formats

Outlook to PDF: Converting Office Document File Attachments Into PDF Files

PDF is a good format for archiving email as it can embed the original look and formatting of an email message.  However, correctly handling a wide range of email file attachments when converting Outlook email to PDF files can be a difficult challenge. 

MessageExport add-in for Microsoft Outlook helps you overcome this challenge by providing selectable pdf export methods that help you achieve the desired end result.

Let's look at the different ways that MessageExport processes emails and file attachments to PDF documents.

Converting Document Email Attachments to the PDF image.

Using the export profile called "Export to PDF - Attachments converted/included" causes MessageExport to create PDFs that embed email file attachments as images within the PDF document. Conversion of most image and document file attachment is supported.

The original name of the file is placed vertically along the left page margin so that it's easy to identify the name of the file.  This is a method that is often used when preparing email for legal purposes. It's very convenient, as the documents are easily visible within the PDF, and no software other than a PDF viewer is needed to view the documents. The documents are "frozen" in their original state and cannot be readily altered.

What happens if an attachment is unable to be converted?  MessageExport will default to embedding the file within the PDF to preserve it's context.  This means that the file can later be extracted from the PDF and separately analyzed.

Embedding Outlook Email Attachments within a PDF

When it is necessary to keep all email file attachments as separate documents so that they may be extracted and later edited or manipulated with their native software application, MessageExport provides a profile called, "Export to PDF - Attachments Embedded." 

This profile will cause MessageExport to create PDF files that are not part of the PDF image, but rather embedded within the PDF document as separate files.  Using any standard PDF viewer, the documents can be later extracted and used.

This method works very well for personal email archiving, where it may be desirable to be able to have full access to the original documents  for editing or to continue working on them.

Extracting Outlook File Attachments

MessageExport makes it easy to save Outlook email file attachments to a Windows 10 folder, in bulk.  This process involves selecting the appropriate email messages in Outlook's message list (Control-A will select all emails in the list), then choosing the profile called, "Export to PDF - Attachments saved to disk."

MessageExport will leave the original email attachment within Outlook, so nothing is altered in Outlook's pst file.  A copy of the original file attachment is placed in the selected Windows folder, where it can be easily accessed. 


A free 15 trial of MessageExport for Outlook can be downloaded from the product home page.

Outlook to PDF: Saving Multiple Outlook Emails to a Single PDF File

MessageExport is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that expands Outlook's ability to export email messages to different formats.  A useful feature is the ability to export multiple emails and file attachments into a single PDF file. 

MessageExport integrates tightly with the Outlook toolbar.  Export operations are done by way of "export profiles" which can be customized to fit specific purposes.  MessageExport ships with many standard export profiles, including three variations that will allow you to export email to a single pdf file.
 

MessageExport toolbar in Outlook

To select these profiles, click on the drop down list. MessageExport supports three different processes for converting Outlook mail to a single PDF. You can convert the email and attempt to convert document file attachments into the PDF image; you can convert the email and embed file attachment as distinct files within the PDF file; or you can convert the email and save the file attachments to a location on your hard drive.

In our example below, we have selected the profile called "Single PDF - attachments converted/included."



Choose Single PDF profile from MessageExport add-in for Outlook

Next, choose the email messages you want to convert to a single PDF file.  Although there is no limit, we recommend no more than 500 emails in a single pdf file. They can become very large very quickly. 

After the emails are selected, click MessageExport's blue Export button to begin the conversion process.

MessageExport will continue until the operation has completed, and all selected emails have been processed into a single pdf file.

For more information about MessageExport, or to download a  15 day free trial visit the MessageExport home page. If you decide not to purchase MessageExport after the trial is finished, leave it installed! It will still allow you to convert single email messages to PDF and other formats, free.  You can purchase MessageExport at a later time if you decide you want to enable to bulk export functions.

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.

 

Download a free 15 day trial of MessageExport and follow along!

Automating Email To PDF Conversion Using MessageExport Add-In For Microsoft Outlook

MessageExport is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook (2010/2013/2016/365) that extends Outlook's ability to manipulate email. Among MessageExport's many capabilities is the automation of Outlook email to PDF. You can use MessageExport to automatically convert Outlook email into PDF files, with options to convert email file attachments into PDF as well.

The basic method of using MessageExport is to select the emails you want to convert in the Outlook mail list, choose the export profile (that's the target format selected from the drop down list, such as pdf, msg, csv, etc), and then click the "Export" button.


MessageExport Toolbar in Outlook 2010

MessageExport's "Export Profiles" give you a lot of control over how they function. You can create your own export profiles or edit the existing profiles. Let's talk about how we can set MessageExport to automatically export email messages to PDF.

Once MessageExport is installed on your computer (a free 15 day trial is available for testing), consider how you want message to flow. For example, do you want to export only certain messages to PDF format?  If so, you should begin with an Outlook rule that will place a copy of specific messages into an Outlook folder. MessageExport can then be setup to monitor that folder and export any emails that are copied to that folder into PDF files.

Next, ask yourself how you want to handle email file attachments. Should MessageExport ignore attachments?  Embed them as separate files within the PDF?  Should it extract the files to disk? Or should it try to convert the file attachments into the PDF document image?

Once you've come to a decision on the above items, let's proceed. 

In our example today, I am going to have MessageExport convert all email messages that are copied to a specific folder into PDF files.

First, right click on your Outlook folder structure and select "new folder." 
Next, setup an Outlook rule that will copy email that meet your specific criteria to this new folder.
Third, go the MessageExport settings and edit the Export Profile to process new email messages that arrive in this folder. Here's how to accomplish step three in detail.

First, go to the MessageExport toolbar and select the profile called "Export to PDF - attachmetns converted/included."  Then click the Edit Profile button.

Click Edit Profile will cause the profile settings window to appear. Next, change the "Export From" field to "Predefined Folder with Subfolders."  This will cause a folder window to popup. Select the Outlook folder where your Outlook rule will be copying emails. This folder will contain the emails that MessageExport will process.

To have MesageExport only save new email messages, check the box that says, "Turn on Export History."  Now it will only export an email one time and prevent duplicates.

From here, click the tab called "Scheduler" to setup the intervals at which MessageExport will check the folder and process any new emails.  Click "Enabled" to turn on the scheduler.
You can then set the time for the first execution of the schedule, as well as an optional last date. The schedule can be set to repeat at any interval you wish. Intervals are scheduled in minutes. To repeat every hour, just type in 60 minutes.



MessageExport's Outlook Scheduler

Click Ok, and you're ready to go!  MessageExport will run this schedule at the interval you specify, will convert any new email messages to PDF that your rule places in the target folder, and will copy those PDF files to a location that you specify.

Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions please ask them in the comments field below.

Installing MessageExport Add-on in Microsoft Office Outlook 365

MessageExport add-on brings additional email export functionality to Microsoft Outlook 365.  With MessageExport installed, Outlook 365 can save emails as PDF files, and automatically run user scheduled export actions.  Although email-to-pdf export is a major feature of MessageExport add-on, it can also save email to other formats, including CSV, EML, MBOX, JPG, GIF, TIF, Text, PNG, MHT and more.

MessageExport is free to try for 15 days.  Following the free trial, leave MessageExport installed! Although it will no longer run schedules or bulk export, you can continue to use it to individually export emails.  You can also convert the "free" version of MessageExport into the full version any time with an activation code.

Installing MessageExport

To install the 15 day free trial, visit the publisher's website and get the latest code-signed installer for MessageExport.

MessageExport is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook 365. It also supports Outlook 2019, 2016, 2013 and 2010.  Without a supported version of Microsoft Outlook, you should not install MessageExport.

A 64 bit version of Windows 10, 8, 7 or Vista, and a minimum of 2 GB of RAM is recommended.  32 bit Windows and 32-bit Outlook is supported, but performance may be compromised.

Tip: Outlook 365 must be closed before the MessageExport installer can begin.

Click on the MessageExport installer and follow the prompts!

MessageExport Setup Wizard

Accept End User License Agreement

Select the application folder. Default is recommended.

If you are updating MessageExport, choose the best option for your installation.

Begin the installation process.

MessageExport installer will copy files to your computer.

Finished!  Time to restart Outlook 365.

When the MessageExport installer wizard finishes, restart Microsoft Outlook 365 and lets verify that MessageExport  is now part of the Outlook menu system.

Start Outlook 365

Find the MessageExport tab in Outlook 365

To start using MessageExport, choose an email (or several emails) from the Outlook mail list.  Then, choose an export profile from MessageExport's drop down list and click "Export."

To purchase a license for the full version of MessageExport, click "Get Full Version" from the toolbar.  After you receive your registration code by email, paste it into MessageExport's "Registration Code" field and click "Activate."

Activating MessageExport add-on for Outlook 365.

Now you are ready to get to work!  If you have any questions or need assistance, contact the MessageExport support team at Encryptomatic LLC, or call +1-651-815-4902 x2.

Expanding Microsoft Outlook's Limited Export Capabilities.

MessageExport by Encryptomatic LLC is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that makes it possible for you to transform Outlook email in powerful ways.

We made this one minute video to help you begin using MessageExport right away.  It's as simple as choosing an export format,  selecting the emails you want to export, and then clicking the "Export" button.



MessageExport can transform your Outlook emails (365/2019/2016/2010/2007) into many different formats, including PDF, TIF, GIF, MBOX, MHT, MTML, Text and much more.

Download the MessageExport free trial today!

We've updated MessageExport add-in for MS Outlook again.

MessageExport is the add-in that improves Microsoft Outlook's export capabilities. It is used all over the world by governments, corporations, and individuals to process emails.  

MessageExport works to process individual emails, streams of emails, or bulk selections.  It can process emails on demand, or on a custom time table.  MessageExport streamlines email processing and saves people a lot of time. MessageExport can save emails to PDF, CSV, MBOX and many other useful formats, as well as other helpful things.

Version 4.0.164 includes the following new features that our customers asked for, and also some bug fixes.

Features

[ME-108] - Integrate an option to add a new folder

[ME-100] - Add single mbox file format (All emails in one file)

[ME-95]  - Improved breadcrums

[ME-88]  - Allow CC and BCC to be added to the CSV export

Bugs

[ME-115] - Images removed when un-checking the "Included mail headers" for PDF conversion

[ME-112] - Performance conflict when using the latest builds

[ME-95]  - Error thrown on converted emails with attachments

MessageExport works with Microsoft Office Outlook 2016/2013/2010/2007. The cost for a single license is $79.99.  A free 15 day trial and a 30 day money back guarantee will help you decide if MessageExport can save you time, too.  Learn more about MessageExport at the official product home page.

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Automatically Convert Outlook Email to PDF using MessageExport

Encryptomatic LLC's MessageExport(TM) add-in for Microsoft Outlook lets you transform your email content in lots of useful ways.

Normally, people simply select the emails they want to export and then click the "Export" button.  But what if your needs are little more complex than that?  What if you want to always export new emails to PDF files, and you want it to be done automatically, rather than manually?

This article shows how use MessageExport to convert inbound email messages into PDF files, automatically.

Editing Email Export Profiles

You can create new and unique export profiles in MessageExport. However, for simplicity, we are going to alter the existing"Export to PDF" profile so that when a new email message is received, MessageExport will automatically convert it to a PDF file.

From the MessageExport toolbar in Outlook, select the "Export to PDF" profile.

Select Tools icon to edit an Export Profile.

This will bring open the settings for the "Export to PDF" profile.

Export Profile Settings.

On the "Common" tab, change the "Export from" drop down list to "Pre-defined folder," and then set the "Outlook folder" to your Inbox.

Its also a good idea to check the box for "Turn on Export History" to avoid duplicating emails during the export process.

Now jump to the tab labeled "Scheduler."

Scheduler Tab

The Scheduler tells MessageExport to run this export profile on a time table that you select.  Lets say we want to run this export profile once every hour. Here's how we do that.

First, click "Enable" to activate the scheduler. 

Next, click "Repeat every..." and enter "1" into the Hrs column.

Save it, and you're ready to go.

MessageExport will now check your Outlook inbox every hour. If it finds any new emails there, it will automatically convert them to a PDF file.

To stop the automatic email conversion process, just uncheck "Enabled."

There are countless other ways you can configure MessageExport using the scheduler. 

Download a free trial of MessageExport on the product home page.

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

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 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 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.

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.

How to Save Outlook Email as PDF Files

Saving Outlook E-mail to PDF is Fast with MessageExport

Despite the rise of social media e-mail remains an important method of customer communication for businesses, and Microsoft Outlook is an important part of e-mail. The MessageExport add-on for Outlook, by Encryptomatic LLC, is a leading tool for accurately converting Outlook mail to Pdf portable documents.

MessageExport is used extensively in the legal, insurance and government industries.  It excels at automating multi-step export processes.   If your boss asks you to convert messages from a client to PDF and place them on a shared drive, this seemingly simple request can actually encompass several complex steps.  Converting e-mail to PDF begins to become complicated as we consider the problem of e-mail file attachments.




MessageExport brings email-to-PDF conversion to the Outlook context menu. As the video demonstrates, using MessageExport is a simple as selecting the individual e-mails or the email folders, and clicking the "export" button.

Outlook PDF Export Profiles

Some of the options that MessageExport brings to Outlook include create a PDF file with the file attachments embedded within the PDF document;  attachments converted and appearing within the PDF document image; saving the attachments to disk, separate from the PDF file.

Multiple emails can be saved into a single PDF document.  MessageExport also supports the PDF/A (ISO 19005-1) specification.

MessageExport also brings other formats to Outlook in addition to PDF. These include MBOX, MSG, ZIP, EML, MHT, HTML, JPG, GIF, CSV, GIF, etc.

Learn more about MessageExport by downloading the free trial software.  If you have any question, please post in the comments below.

MessageExport's File Explorer Brings Convenience to Microsoft Outlook.

MessageExport is a powerful tools that integrate tightly with Microsoft Outlook to allow you to convert and copy Outlook e-Mail to different places, either manually or in an automated manner.   It works with Outlook 365/2019/2016/2013/2010, expanding Outlook's capabilities to export e-Mail messages, saving time and automating tedious e-Mail conversion chores.

We have enhanced MessageExport's file and folder integration with new features that you can use to save, preview, open and attach converted Outlook e-Mails.

The MessageExport file explorer can be used to easily convert Outlook e-Mail into any of the supported file formats with drag and drop convenience.

How to use the Outlook File Explorer in MessageExport

In the video example below, we convert Outlook e-Mail into PDF files.  The PDF format is selected from the MessageExport toolbar.   Now, any e-Mail that we drag from Outlook's maillist and drop into a folder in the explorer will be automatically converted to PDF.

The new PDF file will appear in the file folder.  Click on any document file that appears in the explorer to see it in the preview window.

Right click on any file, and you can choose to open the file in it's native application, or you
can attach it to an e-Mail message.

Right click on a file in MessageExport's Outlook folder explorer. There are many other conveniences that MessageExport adds to Outlook, such as the ability to convert Outlook e-Mail to many other formats from a selectable dropdown list.

These "export profiles" can be configured in innumerable combination to help you get your work done.  Some of the options include full control over file naming structure, preserving the Outlook folder structure during export and more.  You can even configure an export profile to automatically convert new e-Mails added to a folder.

MessageExport includes integration with Symantec Enteprise Vault, and is able to retrieve vaulted e-Mails for conversion.  It also works with Microsoft Sharepoint Server.

Outlook e-Mail conversion formats in MessageExport

To summarize the uses for MessageExport's expanded file explorer functionality:

• Provides file system access within the Outlook application
• Convert e-Mail by dragging them to a folder
• Preview the converted e-Mail
• Attach the file to a new Outlook e-Mail
• Open the file in it's native application

We hope you enjoy this new functionality in your MessageExport software. Download a 15 day free trial.  Software installation and removal support is available from the Encryptomatic LLC support team, if you need it.  MessageExport can easily be removed by running the installer and choosing "Uninstall," or by using Microsoft Windows' Add/Remove Programs service. 

Questions? Click the live help on this web page, or email supportline at encryptomatic.com

Embedded E-Mail Processing: How to Convert Outlook Email With Email File Attachments to PDF?

MessageExport is a professional tool designed specifically for people who have important work to do with E-Mail.  It integrates tightly with Microsoft Office Outlook, enhancing the user experience with powerful new features designed to make their work life easier and more productive.

Today we released MessageExport 3.5, and we're excited about the new features it has.  One feature was requestd by several customers was to improve MessageExport's handling of .msg and .eml email file attachments (emails within emails).

In this release, we've improved how MessageExport handles E-Mail file attachments that are themselves E-Mails during the process of converting (or bulk converting)  E-Mails to PDF.

Say that you are working on a legal case, and you have just received a "smoking gun" E-Mail message as part of discovery.  This E-Mail that has a .MSG E-Mail file attached to it.  And inside that .MSG E-Mail attachment, is another E-Mail message, that contains yet another .MSG E-Mail file attachment.  And lets also say that each of these E-Mails contain other attachments, such as .jpg images.

If you are the lucky person who is responsible to convert this E-Mail message (which is actually four different nested E-Mails) into a PDF file, it may take you 30 minutes or longer to manually disassemble the entire E-Mail and attachments, re-organize them into a logical structure that preserves their context, and then convert them all into a single PDF file.

MessageExport 3.5 Exports E-Mails That Are Attachments Into PDF Files.

Or, you could just click on the main E-Mail message, choose "Export to PDF" from the MessageExport toolbar, and click "Export."  MessageExport will complete the entire E-Mail to PDF operation for you in less than a minute, including the processing of emails that are themselves forwarded email attachments.

MessageExport 3.5 also includes a re-vamped naming structure, which we call Breadcrumbs" for lack of a better term. Breadcrumbs help to orient the viewer to the content within the PDF.  For example, it may be important to know the order and the structure of the various E-Mails, otherwise how can you tell who sent which file to whom?

Embedded email processing is a powerful new feature for MessageExport. We hope it will help make you more efficient, and your work more delightful.

If you are already a MessageExport customer, you may be entitled to free upgrade.

If you have never tried MessageExport, take it for a 15 day spin. If it meets your needs, we'd love to have you as a customer. Click here to download a free trial of MessageExport.

Bulk Converting Outlook Email to PDF With Symantec Enterprise Vault

Symantec® Enterprise Vault™ is an information archiving product used in many large organizations. It allows administrators to apply policies to collected data, while protecting and gathering information in a centralized repository.

Enterprise Vault includes a Microsoft Outlook add-in.  Outlook data is stored in the vault, and emails are replaced with a short text stub file.  The Outlook mail list looks fairly normal, as only the first 100 characters or so are displayed in the expanded mail list. When an Enterprise Vault user clicks on an Outlook email message the content of the email is quickly retrieved from the vault, and displayed in a separate window.

For all it's benefits, Enterprise Vault presents Outlook users with some difficulty while exporting emails in bulk. The MessageExport™ add-in by Encryptomatic® integrates with Outlook and Enterprise Vault. MessageExport allows users to retrieve emails from the vault so that it can perform bulk email export functions, such as saving vaulted emails in .pdf, .msg, .tiff and other useful file formats.

Before exporting vaulted emails with MessageExport, you'll first to enter your credentials. Enter the MessageExport settings and choose the "Enterprise Vault" settings.



Setup Enterprise Vault Connection in MessageExport

After the credentials are entered, you're now ready to export emails. The process for exporting emails is the same as a non-Enterprise Vault environment. Just select any email or Outlook folder, choose the export profile (such as Export to PDF) from the drop down list, and click the "Export" button.



MessageExport integration with Microsoft Outlook.

For more information on MessageExport, and a free trial, visit the product home page.



 

MessageExport Add-in Extends MS Outlook's Ability to Export Email to PDF, TXT, and Other Formats

While Microsoft Outlook is rightly the world's most popular email client, getting your email messages out of Outlook can be a challenge.   MessageExport is an add-in that improves the email export functionality of Microsoft Outlook, adding many new capabilities such as export to pdf, csv, text, html, mbox, gif and other useful formats. 

Developed by Encryptomatic LLC, MessageExport tightly integrates with the Outlook user interface to make it easy to export email from Outlook in different formats.

Introducing MessageExport Add-in for Outlook

MessageExport helps you get your email messages out of Outlook.  It is compatible with Microsoft Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007 and 2003, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Outlook, integrating tightly with Outlook's menus.

To use MessageExport, emails are selected from the Outlook email list, an export profile is selected, and then the blue "Export" button is clicked.

MessageExport integration with Outlook main menu toolbar.

Converting Email with Microsoft Outlook 2013 Rules and MessageExport Add-On.

The MessageExport Add-in for Microsoft Outlook by Encryptomatic LLC extends Outlook's ability to convert, export and copy email messages automatically.  Our article today looks at various ways that you can use Microsoft Outlook Rules and MessageExport together to perform a complex email processing operation.

While MessageExport will address the needs of most people right out of the box, sometimes custom solutions need to be created. MessageExport does not integrate directly to Outlook rules, but using them together provides a vast range of possibilities for email processing.

We're often surprised at how people use MessageExport. It was designed to give users a wide range of options to design custom solutions to their email content management challeges. We love hearing about the creative ways that people use MessageExport and the real-life issues our software helps people solve.

Today we are designing a solution that will result in email messages received in Outlook, from a specific client domain, being converted into a PDF file, copied to a specific folder, and then the original email message in Outlook will be deleted.

Let's break down our project. The steps in involved in this project include:
1. Creating an Outlook rule to collect messages from the client's email domain into an Outlook folder
2. Creating a custom MessageExport profile that will perform these 3 functions:

a. Convert new messages added to a folder into PDF files
b. Delete the messages after they have been converted
c. Perform this operation again in xx minutes.

This is a two part article. This first portion will focus on setting up the Outlook 2013 rule that will accomplish step 1, above. The second part of this article will focus on step 2, setting up MessageExport.

Getting Started

This article assumes that you have Outlook 2013 and the MessageExport add-in for Outlook installed. The steps will be similar for earlier versions of Outlook, but there will be some differences in the location of the rules menu.

The first thing we'll want to do is to create a new folder in Outlook where we will copy email messages that we want to convert into PDF files.

First decide where to place your new folder in your Outlook tree structure. I've decided to create a new folder called "Emails to PDF" beneath my Inbox. To do this I right click on Inbox, select New Folder, and apply my name, and press Enter.

Create a new email folder in Outlook 2013

Now that we have our folder, lets setup an Outlook Rule to toss emails in there.

Setting up Outlook Rules

In Outlook 2013, Microsoft Outlook's rules can be accessed by going to File > Outlook Rules &  Alerts.

Outlook 2013 Rules & Alerts

Click on Rules and Alerts, and a window will open. To create a new Outlook rule, click New Rule.

Click 'New Rule' to create an Outlook rule.

 This will being up a new window. Find "Start from a blank rule" and choose "Apply rule on messages I recieve." Click "Next" to continue.

The following image has quite a bit going on. It is not as difficult as it looks, I promise. I indicated the different areas where you will need to make a selection.

In Step 1, mark the line "with specific words in the recipient's address.

In Step 2, click "specific words."  This will open another window called Search Text.  Enter your client's domain name into this field and click "Add."

Outlook Rules Wizard, Steps 1 and 2.

When you're done, click "OK" to close the Search Text box, and then "Next" in the Rules Wizard.

The Rules Wizard will advance to the next page.  Since we want to move emails from our client to a specific folder, check the box next to "move it to the specified folder."  In Step 2, you'll need to specify the client's domain name. In my example, any email from the domain Megacompany.biz (my client) will be copied to a folder that I specify.  Entering the domain name (not the entire email address) will include all email received from your client. 

Now lets specify the folder where all email from the client will be copied to. Click the word "specified" to open up a second window where you'll choose the folder you created earlier. I selected my folder "Email to PDF."

Move email to the specified folder

Click ok to close out.

Congratulations! You've just created a Windows Rule to copy all email received from your client into your selected folder.

Click through to part 2 of this article, and we'll show you how to setup the MessageExport add-in for Microsoft Outlook to process the email folder we just created, converting email messages to PDF, and then deleting the messages.

Can PDF Files Harm Your Computer?

You may have noticed that when you download PDF (Portable Document Format) files in Chrome, it will warn you that the file might harm your computer. On the surface, PDFs are seemingly harmless files containing nothing more than text and images. But there's more to PDF files than most people realize. For example, PDF files can contain scripts, embedded media and other such potentially malicious content.

It turns out that the PDF format is actually quite complicated. It isn't just text and images as you might expect. It has a lot of unnecessary features that have opened many security holes in the past. 

JavaScript: PDFs support JavaScript code, which is the same language that is used to display content in your web browser. This allows them to be as dynamic as web pages. JavaScript code in PDF documents can run automatically upon opening the document and have been known to exploit many security holes in Adobe Reader. There are even many Adobe Reader-specific JavaScript APIs, some of which are insecure and have been exploited.

Embedded Flash: Although Flash is a popular technology, there are many insecurities present in Flash - the very reason that Apple has famously refused to allow Flash on its mobile products. Until April 10, 2012, Adobe Reader had its own internal Flash player. Now Adobe Reader uses the version of Flash that is installed on your system. As long as you have the latest version of both Adobe Reader and Flash, you should mostly be free from any security risks.

Launching External Applications: Adobe Reader used to have a feature where it could run any external application in the system by asking for a confirmation through a pop-up window. If you clicked OK, you could have opened a potentially malicious program. Adobe Reader now no longer supports this feature.

Embedded PDF files: Sometimes, a PDF file can contain an embedded malicious PDF file. Although your antivirus would detect the PDF as not malicious, the PDF would launch another embedded malicious PDF after opening it. This fools antivirus scanners because they cannot detect the presence of the hidden PDF file.

Embedded Media: Sometimes, PDFs can contain embedded media players such as QuickTime player or Windows Media Player. Any security holes in such media players can harm your computer.

PDFs are now much safer

Although the PDF format has a lot of features that most people will never use, it is now much safer than it used to be. This is because Adobe has introduced a new sandboxing feature called 'Protected Mode' in Adobe Reader X. This allows Adobe Reader to only access certain parts of the operating system. That means that hackers will have to find two security holes: one in the PDF viewer and another in the sandbox. Only then can they escape the sandbox and do damage to the rest of the computer. This is very similar to Google Chrome's sandboxing feature, where the browser isolates Chrome processes (tabs) from the rest of the operating system.

You can also opt for one of the many third-party PDF readers that don't have the above features. In fact, you don't even need a PDF reader because Chrome and Firefox both have integrated PDF readers which are pretty secure. In case you do opt for a PDF reader, just make sure that it's updated to the latest version and you should be safe.