Gmail Takeout MBOX to PDF: a whole label as one dated record
Google Takeout gives you your Gmail as an MBOX file that almost nothing opens. Upload it here and get one PDF with every email in date order, sender, recipients and date exactly as in the headers, the full text, and a list of attachments. The first emails are free; the whole mailbox is $5, paid once.
- Reads the .mbox from Google Takeout, also inside the .zip Takeout downloads
- Every email by date with From, To, Cc, Date and Subject as in the headers
- Full text, never summarised; attachments listed by name, type and size
- Up to 5,000 emails for one payment of $5
- Optional filter to one person, plus TXT and CSV downloads
… and 301 more in the export
Email record · 212 of 305
- From
- Jane Landlord <[email protected]>
- To
- Ahmed Ali <[email protected]>
- Date
- Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:25:10 +0100
- Subject
- Deposit and the heating repair
The invoice for the heating repair is attached. I will deduct the cost from the deposit unless you can show the fault was reported in January.
Attachments: invoice-heating.pdf (84 KB)
Source SHA-256 2f0138e09f35819e…Page 141 of 167
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How to get the MBOX file from Gmail
- Go to takeout.google.com and click "Deselect all"
- Tick Mail, then "All Mail data included" to pick only the labels you need
- Create the export; Google emails you a download link when it is ready
- Download the .zip and upload it here as it is, or the .mbox file inside it
Why one label is usually the right size
A whole Gmail account can hold tens of thousands of emails, most of them newsletters. For a dispute, a tenancy, a job or an estate, the useful emails are usually under one label or with one person. Put them under a label in Gmail first, export that label, and the PDF is the conversation that matters, in order, from the first email to the last.
If you cannot label them, export everything and use the "Only emails from or to" filter here with the person's email address or name.
What a chat assistant does with an MBOX
An MBOX file is one long text file with every email and its attachments encoded inside it; a mailbox export is easily hundreds of megabytes. A chat assistant cannot take a file that size, and given a long thread it tends to summarise. The tool parses the file, sorts by the date in each email's header and copies every email word for word.
How the tool works, what it costs and how your files are handled is on the Email to PDF page; prices for every tool are on the pricing page.
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Questions and answers
Does it work with Outlook or Apple Mail?
Yes. Save the emails as .eml files (or a .zip of them) from Outlook, or upload the .emlx files from Apple Mail.
Are the attachments included in the PDF?
Each attachment is listed under its email by name, type and size. The attachment files themselves are not printed into the PDF.
Are dates converted to my time zone?
No. Each date is printed exactly as it appears in the email header, with its original time zone offset.
How large can the export be?
Files up to 2 GB. One payment of $5 covers up to 5,000 emails; Unlimited covers up to 25,000.