How to Convert Horde Mail to PDF with Attachments

Summary: This article covers the technique to easily convert Horde Mail to PDF with Attachments in  a step-by-step manner. It enables you to download Horde Webmail emails and then convert them into PDF documents on Windows and Mac machine.

Horde Webmail is a free, browser-based email suite. It enables users to send, receive, and organize emails, calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, files and bookmarks. Horde webmail is integrated within cPanel and WHM to help cPanel users manage their email accounts.

Sometimes, there is a need to convert Horde emails into PDF documents for legal purposes. It enables you to save your important data in platform-independent documents for sharing purpose. So, here, we will describe how to convert Horde to PDF documents while keeping the attachments intact.

Simple Method to Convert Horde Emails to PDF Documents

It requires two steps to produce PDF files:

1. Export emails from Horde WebMail to local computer
2. Convert exported data into PDF files

Once converted, you can easily open the files via Adobe and other PDF readers. You can also customize the conversion with the help of multiple advanced settings such as add bates number, set page layout etc.

#1 – Export Emails from Horde Webmail

Open your cPanel interface and perform the following instructions:

• Type and open cPanel in your web browser: https://[Server IP]/cpanel or https://[Server HostName]/cpanel
• Enter the username and password to open the cPanel interface.

• Now, click on Email Accounts option.

• In the Email Accounts window, you will see all the associated email accounts. Click on Check Email corresponding to the email account that you want to convert into PDF.

• Choose Horde Webmail from the list of options and click Open button.

• Right-click on the Inbox folder and click on Export option.

• Select Download into MBOX format and click on OK button.

• Save the file in your local computer.

You will end up with MBOX file(s) that contain all your Horde emails. Now, you need to convert this mailbox file into PDF for intended results.

#2 – Convert Exported Horde Mailbox to PDF with Attachments

PDF is not a mailbox format. Even if you associate and use the MBOX file with desktop email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail, you won’t be able to save the emails into PDF in bulk and retain attachments at the same time. Therefore, it is necessary to use third-party software to get perfect results.

SysTools MBOX Converter is the best software to convert Horde to PDF and retain attachments and metadata properties. During the conversion, you will come across multiple advanced settings such as:

• Naming Convention
• Date-filters
• Page Margins
• Paper Orientation
• Page Size
• Include Header Details, and more…

The software is available for both Windows and Mac system so you can choose according to your needs.

The steps given below are for Windows system ONLY. If you wish to access the information regarding the Mac software, you can go to Mac MBOX Converter.

How to Convert Horde to PDF on Windows system?

• Run the software on your Windows machine and click on Add Files button from the ribbon bar.

• Choose the MBOX Files option and click the Next button.

• Click on Browse (…) option and select the exported Horde MBOX file from the system.

• The tool will now preview the Horde emails. Click on the Export button from the ribbon bar to continue.

• Choose PDF option from the list of given export formats and click on Adv.. Settings.

• Apply Advanced Settings as per requirements and click the Save button.

• Set your destination path and click Export to start exporting Horde emails to PDF files.

With these steps, all your Horde webmail emails will be successfully converted into PDF documents without any issues. You can open the PDF files via any PDF reader applications including Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Concluding Lines

Exporting emails from Horde to PDF requires two phases for completion. There are no direct measures to do this. We have provided both these phases in this article with proper screenshots and instructions. By using this simple two-step method, you can easily access all your Horde webmail emails as PDF documents on your Windows and Mac system.