Mail Attachment Downloader lets you bulk download attachments, bulk download emails and archive or save them as eml, pdf, docx, tiff and more.
Saving emails and email attachments has never been easier. We offer a FREE version available on our website and also a PRO version that has additional capabilities that the FREE version does not.
Mail Attachment Downloader is NOT dependent on any installed email client such as Outlook and can work independently on a server if need be.
The FREE version lets you bulk download email attachments. The PRO version lets you bulk download both email attachments and emails (in .eml format or .txt or .html formats or .pdf or .docx or a .tiff multipage image).
If you want to save emails and attachments into a SINGLE PDF, you can do so as described in this blog post.
Bulk download emails as .eml and save
We will explore how to set this up using the Mail Attachment Downloader PRO version.
- Create a new rule filter by going to the Global Filters tab and clicking on Add a new filter.
- Type in the rule name for the new filter.
- In the Save area, check the Save as .eml checkbox as shown
This will bulk download emails as .eml files to the save folder.
In addition to the above, you can create many rules to only save certain .eml files like those that match a certain FROM email or a certain SUBJECT each out to different folders by creating a rule per save location.
Save emails and email attachments as PDF, DOCX or TIFF
If you want to have this .eml saved to a different format like PDF or DOCX or a multipage TIFF (the PRO Server supports over 50+ file formats), do the following:
- In the Actions after save section, click on Add action -> Document conversion
- Select the Document conversion entry if not already selected and click the Add conversion button
- Select the From type as Any doc and the To type as PDF or TIFF or DOCX.
That’s it!
Now you have emails being saved to PDF or any other format as desired.
If you want only the .eml to be saved without the attachments, you can add a Filename filter and specify ‘.eml’ in the filter text box. This will only download the .eml’s without downloading the attachments separately.
If you want to save emails and attachments into a SINGLE PDF, you can do so as described in this blog post.
Automate bulk downloads
With the PRO Server version you can run the above setup 24×7 as a Windows Service and not have to worry about opening up the program every time you need to bulk download emails.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Further reading
Some interesting how-to links and posts for further exploration:
- Save emails to a database or even excel/csv from emails to a database
- Save to multiple folders from multiple accounts using multiple email rules.
- Send emails automatically after downloading files or attachments or body
- Unzip files, Decrypt pdf’s and run script’s
- Extract data and download emails for invoice processing
- How email rules work in-depth
Contact us
Contact us if you have any questions, suggestions about the functionality described in this article.