Email to PDF
An .eml message as a clean PDF — headers, body, attachment list.
Email to PDF turns an .eml message into a paginated PDF with selectable text: a header block with the sender, recipients, date and subject, a rule, then the message's own HTML body — with the pictures embedded in the message included and the pictures it points at on the internet replaced by a note, because remote content is not loaded. Attachments are listed at the end by name, type and size; they are not converted and are not inside the PDF. It reads .eml, the format every mail client can export; an Outlook .msg file is named as unreadable with the export route to take, rather than half-parsed.
Email to PDF turns a saved .eml message into a paginated PDF in your browser — free, with no account and no watermark. The message is read on your device, and nothing in it is fetched from the internet.
How to convert Email to PDF — steps & common uses
What people use Email to PDF for
People who need a message as a document — for a file, a filing, or a claim — with the headers on it and no remote content loaded.
- Keep a paper record of an email exchange
- Attach a message to a claim or a filing
- Archive a receipt or a booking confirmation
- Print an email with its headers intact
- Save a message without loading its tracking pixels
How to convert Email to PDF
- Export the message from your mail client as .eml and drop the file in.
- Check what was found: sender, recipients, date, which body the message has, and what came attached.
- Choose the page size and margins, then convert — the text is drawn as real text, not photographed.
- Download a PDF whose text can be selected and searched, with the attachment list at the end.
Good to know: Reads .eml only (a named refusal for Outlook .msg); remote images are never fetched, and attachments are listed rather than converted.
Questions about Email to PDF 7
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. UnboundPDF processes PDFs locally in the browser — documents are not uploaded to a server. We have no backend that receives, stores, or scans your files.
How do I get an .eml file out of my mail?
Apple Mail, Thunderbird and most desktop clients save a message as .eml directly. In Gmail, open the message, choose “Show original” and download it. In Outlook on the web, the message menu offers a download. Outlook for Windows saves .msg by default — see the next answer.
Can it read Outlook .msg files?
No, and it says so rather than half-reading one. A .msg file is Outlook's own binary format, not the MIME format the rest of email uses. The tool detects it by its signature and tells you to export the message as .eml instead. A parser that half-worked on .msg would produce a document that looks like your email and is not it.
Are pictures in the email loaded?
Pictures embedded in the message itself are included. Pictures the message points at on somebody's web server are not fetched — each one is replaced by a visible note. That is both a privacy behaviour, because loading one tells that server the message was opened, and an accuracy one, because the picture is not in the file you were given.
Are attachments converted too?
No. They are listed at the end of the PDF by name, type and size, so the record is complete, but the attachment files themselves are not converted and are not inside the PDF. Save them from your mail client and run them through the tool that suits each one.
Is the text selectable?
Yes. The message is laid out and drawn as embedded-font text with the same renderer HTML to PDF uses, so the result can be selected, searched and copied — it is not a picture of the message.
What if the email has no HTML part?
Its plain text is set as the body instead, keeping the line breaks the sender wrote, and the result says that is what happened.
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How your files are handled
The work runs on your own device, inside the browser tab — so there is no server to send your document to.
- Nothing is uploaded. We have no backend that receives or stores documents, so we cannot see your files during processing or after.
- Your device does the work. Large documents are handled in stages, pages are rendered as you reach them, and each job is checked against your device before it starts — so a long run takes longer on a phone than on a laptop, nothing is queued behind other people's jobs, and you can stop a run at any point without touching your original file.
- No account and no watermark. The output is a clean file you can use anywhere, with no sign-up and no hourly cap.
More convert tools
Other free PDF utilities that work the same way — in your browser, no sign-up.