Export Gmail to PDF
Save all your Gmail e-mails, or one label, as PDF files with their attachments. See the first 20 free.
- First 20 e-mails free to check before you pay.
- Every attachment saved next to its e-mail.
- Nothing loaded from the web. No tracking pictures.
- Deleted after 24 hours. Nobody reads your mail.
What is in your archive
- A PDF for every e-mailNumbered from the oldest, named with the date and subject, so they sort the right way.
- One PDF per yearAll e-mails of a year in a single file, ready to print, search or send to a lawyer.
- An indexIndex.csv opens in Excel: number, date, sender, recipients, subject, and the folder for Outlook files. Index.html links to every PDF.
- All attachmentsIn a folder next to each e-mail, exactly as they were sent.
- The e-mail as it looksHeader on top, then the message with its fonts, tables and pictures. Every language.
- Searchable textText stays text, so you can search the PDFs and copy from them.
Price
Checking your mailbox and the first 20 e-mails are free. The full archive is one payment: $14.99 for up to 1,000 e-mails, $39.00 for up to 20,000. No subscription.
Step 1: download your Gmail with Google Takeout
Open takeout.google.com, choose "Deselect all", tick only "Mail" and, if you want just some e-mails, choose the labels under "All Mail data included". Create the export. Google e-mails you a link, usually within hours, to a .zip file.
Step 2: unzip and upload the .mbox
Open the .zip. In the folder Takeout, then Mail, you find a file such as "All mail Including Spam and Trash.mbox". Choose that file above. Uploads up to 2 GB run in parts, so keep the page open until it finishes.
Step 3: check the first 20 e-mails, then get the archive
We show you the oldest 20 e-mails as PDF, free. If they look right, pay once and download one ZIP with a PDF for every e-mail, one PDF per year, the attachments and an index. Gmail only prints one e-mail or one conversation at a time; this saves all of them at once.
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Questions about mailbox to PDF
How much does it cost?
Checking the mailbox and the PDF of the first 20 e-mails are free. The full archive is a one-time $14.99 for up to 1,000 e-mails, or $39.00 for up to 20,000. Larger mailboxes: write to support@fileopens.com.
How big can the mailbox be?
Up to 2 GB for an .mbox and 4 GB for an Outlook .pst. It uploads in parts, so a slow or patchy connection is fine; keep the page open until the upload finishes.
How long does it take?
Counting the e-mails and the free preview take a few minutes. The full archive takes about a minute per few hundred e-mails; you can close the page and come back to the same link.
What is in the ZIP?
A PDF for every e-mail, numbered from the oldest, one PDF per year with all of its e-mails, the attachments in a folder next to each e-mail, and an index (Index.csv for Excel and Index.html) with date, sender, recipients and subject.
Is my mail safe?
The mailbox is used only to make your archive. Nothing in it runs, nothing is loaded from the internet, and everything is deleted automatically 24 hours after the archive is ready. Nobody reads it.
I have Apple Mail or Thunderbird, not Gmail
Apple Mail: Mailbox > Export Mailbox gives a folder ending in .mbox; upload the file called "mbox" inside it. Thunderbird: the ImportExportTools NG add-on exports a folder as .mbox, or upload the mail file from your profile folder (for example "Inbox", with no extension).
Do you convert Outlook .pst files?
Yes. Upload the .pst on PST to PDF; the index shows which Outlook folder each e-mail came from. An .ost file (Outlook's offline copy) cannot be read on its own: export a .pst from Outlook first. A single message (.msg) is free: MSG to PDF.