Thunderbird Export Messages to PDF – How to Guide

In this article I want to explain about the process regarding Thunderbird export messages to PDF manually. I frequently see that many users ask about good solution for Thunderbird export mail to PDF with Attachments and all data.  I myself have faced such type of problem earlier, then during surfing I saw several forums regarding this task. Now I have solution for that so I am describing all things.

Before knowing about how to export messages from Thunderbird to PDF, first we discuss about why & what are the reasons occurred in front of users which force them to export Thunderbird messages to PDF Adobe.

Why Users go for Thunderbird Export Mail to PDF

As we know Thunderbird is desktop email client while PDF is standard and universal file format to prepare presentation, evidence, documentation purpose for government and enterprise. Thunderbird emails cannot be viewed easily because it has to be installed and also configured with any id, while PDF can be viewed easily because Adobe Reader is free application. Frequently it has been seen that major demands of Thunderbird export messages to PDF is workplace of users and documentation preparation. Some users want this task due to their hobby to change one format to another one and some users do like that because PDF provides complete restrictions to avoid unwanted access for editing, printing, modifying documents, etc.

Thunderbird Export Messages to PDF Manually – Step by step Guide

Before follow the given manual steps one by one, Install Import/Export Tool add-ons in Thunderbird. Without it you cannot export Thunderbird messages to PDF manually because Thunderbird supports data in two parts – first part is with .msf extension and second part is without extension. Yet it supports .mbox files to store data which mailbox extension to save mails data while PDF is documents file format. Now follow the given steps –

Before starting the process, first create a folder on your disk, where you want to save the extracted PDF files from Thunderbird.

• Now Open Thunderbird. Select one of the folders (Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items) appearing on the left side of the selected email account.
• Now Go Menu Bar and then click on Tools. Select Import/Export Tools.
• Now select “Export all messages in the Folder”
• Now Choose PDF option.

Important: Once you choose the PDF option, an alert window will appear displaying the message “If you export in this format, the attachment are not saved. If you want to save also the attachments, choose a different format.”

You can see that the manual steps are very lengthy and it cannot convert your attachments from Thunderbird to PDF Adobe Reader. It can also skip your data during the conversion process and your time will also get wasted for that. Sometime, users cannot install import/export tools properly so they may face difficulty for doing this task.

If you need to perform Thunderbird Export Messages to PDF immediately and have not much time for giving the manual process then you can go with alternative solution. Use Thunderbird message converter tool that helps you to simply and safely export all Thunderbird messages to PDF and it also saves your attachments of Thunderbird emails to PDF. The solution provides advance steps which makes your conversion very simple and you get complete conversion process. It can export thousands of Thunderbird emails to PDF at single time processing, which save your important time as compared to one by one process. It also automatically locate the location of Thunderbird emails for conversion as you choose select button for processing.

Still you have any doubt then you can also try the program before going to any decision and with Free Thunderbird Email Converter Demo, you can export 25 Thunderbird emails to PDF without any charges. So now forget all your problem regarding Thunderbird export messages to PDF. It also supports 10 file naming options to save your emails with complete timing format such as subject + from + date, from + subject + date, etc.