How to convert PST emails to PDF files?
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Barry Allen
May 22, 2019
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Legal asked for 3 years of project correspondence as PDFs. It all sits in one 6GB Outlook PST. Printing each email one by one is not realistic. Is there a batch way to get PST emails into PDF with attachments included?

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Verified by Mariya Beckham, Forum Moderator ยท Reviewed May 2019

SysTools PST to PDF Converter does exactly this in batch.

1
Load the PST. No Outlook needed on the machine.
2
Choose folders to export and turn on the attachments option. Attachments can embed inside each PDF or save alongside it.
3
Pick a naming pattern like date plus subject so legal can sort the output.

A 6GB PST lands somewhere around 25,000 emails. Expect the run to take an hour or two depending on attachment sizes.

Ran overnight, 27,400 PDFs with a clean date-subject naming scheme. Legal is happy. Solved.