Are you looking for a solution on how to save email as PDF to Dropbox? Whether it's for archiving important correspondence or sharing emails with others, saving emails as PDFs can be incredibly useful. In this article, we'll walk you through the process of saving emails as PDFs and specifically guide you on how to save them directly to Dropbox. So, let's dive in!
Before learning the exact ways to save email as PDF to Dropbox, let’s first make sure that you can save an email to Dropbox and discuss the benefits of doing it.
Instead of manually downloading emails from an email server and then uploading them to Dropbox, MultCloud offers an automatic and free email-to-PDF Dropbox converter which is Email Migration. It can convert multiple emails into PDF files and directly save them to Dropbox at once, along with the attachments.
Let's see how to use Email Migration to save email as PDF to Dropbox from Gmail.
Step 1: Visit the MultCloud website and sign up for a free account.
Step 2: Click on the “Add Email” button and select Gmail. Then follow the prompts to authorize MultCloud’s access to your Gmail account.
Step 3: Click on the “Add Cloud” button and select Dropbox. Also, connect Dropbox and MultCloud by logging in to your Dropbox account.
Step 4: Tap “Email Migration” in the left bar and choose Gmail in the email box and Dropbox in the cloud box. Finally, click “Migrate Now” to start the migration process to save email as PDF to Dropbox
Note 1: You can also save Outlook emails as PDFs to Dropbox with similar steps shown above. Don't forget to change Gmail to Outlook at every step. Although Outlook will be officially on MultCloud in early September, it deserves waiting.
Note 2:
The second way is saving emails to Dropbox by manually downloading and uploading. But this way is cumbersome since you have to enter the print interface every time you need to download an email as a PDF. Thus, it is not as direct as MultCloud Email Migration and may cost you much time if you have a lot of emails.
Step 1: Open an email after you log in to your account on the Gmail website.
Step 2: Click the printer-shaped icon to enter the print interface. Or you can click the 3-dot icon and select “Print” to enter that interface.
Step 3: Extend the options in Destination when a print pop-up window appears. Then choose “Save to PDF” and this email will be exported as PDF to your PC.
Step 4: Click “Upload” in your Dropbox and tap “Files”. Then select the downloaded email and click “Open” to save the email to Dropbox.
Step 1: Open an Outlook email and copy the whole content on it.
Step 2: Open a new document on a text editor and paste the email content on it.
Step 3: Save this document as a PDF by choosing "PDF (*.pdf)" in the file type blank.
By following the step-by-step guide outlined in this article, you can easily save email as PDF to Dropbox, ensuring easy access, enhanced security, and effective file management. Take advantage of MultCloud's capabilities, you can simplify your email-to-PDF-to-Dropbox workflow without the troublesome downloading and uploading.
Additionally, if you find your Dropbox space is not enough and you don’t want to upgrade your plan, you can use MultCloud Cloud Transfer to move some Dropbox files to Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, or other clouds. Using Cloud Transfer, you don’t have to delete the transferred files manually but let MultCloud do it for you with the “Delete all source files after transfer is complete” option.
You can take advantage of MultCloud Email Migration. With it, you can create an automatic Outlook-to-Dropbox task, and emails will be saved in Dropbox as PDF files. Besides, Email Migration supports batch conversion and transfer which can help you save much time. Or, you can copy the Outlook email content on a document and then upload this document to Dropbox.
Whether you want to save your emails as PDFs to the local or cloud, MultCloud Email Migration can help you. It only needs you to create an email migration task and click the start button. If you want to save your Gmail email as PDF, you can utilize the Print feature and then select "Save as PDF" in the destination on the print options page.
You can upload any file to Dropbox on the Dropbox website, drag & drop through the Dropbox desktop app, or upload via MultCloud.
Of course, emails can be uploaded to Dropbox on MultCloud. You only need to choose Gmail or Outlook emails as the source and Dropbox as the target. Then, start this task and the emails will be uploaded to Dropbox in PDF format.