Email to PDF Converter (formely EML to PDF Converter)

This software can be used to convert email files (eml or msg) to pdf files. It can be used as a library, command line tool or desktop application with its GUI.

The conversion is done by parsing (and cleaning) the mime/structure, converting it to html and then using wkhtmltopdf to convert the generated html to a pdf file.

It also handles inline images, corrupt mime headers and can use a proxy.

Prerequisites

You need :

• a complete jre, not a headless one (on Debian, for example, you need to have openjdk-11-jre installed);
• wkhtmltopdf needs to be in your $PATH

Download

You can download the lates binaries here.

There you can find a Windows setup.exe and a jar.

If you want to use the jar (e.g. for a non Windows OS) you need the wkhtmltopdf binary in the PATH.

Screenshot

Commandline Interface

Usage: EmailToPDFConverter [options] <email-file>
  Options:
    -d, --debug
      Debug mode
      Default: false
    -e, --error
      Display only Error messages.
      Default: false
    -aa, --add-attachment-names
      Add the list of attachment names under the body text
      Default: false
    -a, --extract-attachments
      Extract Attachments.
      Default: false
    -ad, --extract-attachments-directory
      Extract Attachments to this Directory, if this option is not present the
      directory is besides the pdf as "<pdf-name>-attachments".
    -?, --help
      Print this help.
    -hh, --hide-headers
      Do not add email headers (subject, from, etc.) at the beginning of the
      PDF document.
      Default: false
    -o, --output-filepath
      Filepath of the produced PDF document. If this option is ommited the PDF
      will be placed alongside the email File.
    -s, --page-size
      Set wkhtmltopdf paper size to: A4, Letter, etc. (default A4)
      Default: A4
    -r, --dpi
      Set wkhtmltopdf DPI. (default 300)
      Default: 300
    -p, --proxy
      Proxy (e.g. "http://10.64.1.74:81"). If "auto" is supplied the default
      system proxy will be used.
    -q, --quiet
      Do not display any messages at all.
      Default: false
    -gui, --show-graphical-user-interface
      Show graphical user interface (other parameters are ignored when using
      this switch).
      Default: false
    -v, --version
      Print the version number.
      Default: false

E.g. java -jar emailconverter-2.1.1-all.jar example.eml (you need wkhtmltopdf binary in the PATH)

How to Build

You need to git clone this repository. The build will fail if you remove the .git folder (e.g. download this as zip from github).

• gradlew shadowJar
  
  Creates a single self contained Jar in build/libs

• gradlew dist
  
  Same as gradlew shadowJar but additionally creates windows exe launchers in build/libs for gui and console mode. This task needs the Launch4j binary in the PATH.

• gradlew innosetup
  
  Creates a windows setup in build/innosetup. This task needs the Launch4j binary as well as the Inno Setup issc.exe in the PATH.

• gradlew check
  
  Executes the unit tests and generates various reports (jacoco, checkstyle, findbugs, jdepend, unit test report).

Date Formatting

Dates are formatted with the default locale. You can change it, e.g. by passing the VM argument -Duser.language=en-US similar to setting the timezone e.g. -Duser.timezone="Asia/Kolkata".

License

The code is available under the terms of the Apache V2 License.