mail-to-pdf

Introduction

mail-to-pdf is aimed at saving emails (as mbox files) in pdf, including the attachments.

Each email of a mbox file is saved in a directory, named by its sending date followed by the object of the email. The mail body is saved as a pdf, and its name is the sending date followed by the object of the email. Attachments are also saved, in their original format (jpeg, mp3, zip file,...)

Installation and usage

npm install -g mail-to-pdf
mail-to-pdf --input <mbox-file | directory> --output-dir /tmp/mail-to-pdf

Usage options

• --input <mbox | directory>: save as pdf the email provided by --input options, which is either a mbox file, or a directory. In this latter case, all mbox files of the directory are processed. By default, the emails in thunderbird are processed (limitation: only valid on windows)

• --output-dir <directory>: output directory where all the emails are stored. Note that each email is saved in its own directory, along with its attachments.

• --no-parallel: by default, parallel processing is performed to speed-up the process. Use this option to have sequential processing

• --force: emails that were already saved as pdf are not re-processed by default. Use this option to force regenerating them

• --dryrun: inputs are processed (to get statistics), but no file is generated (neither pdf nor attachments).

Developer corner

git clone [email protected]:pascal-brand38/mail-to-pdf.git
cd mail-to-pdf
npm install
npm run build
npm install -g .
node dist/mail-to-pdf.mjs --help