Re: [LUG] EML to PDF and routine jobs

[Ciarán Ainsworth <cda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 6 Dec, 2020 at 13:48, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I regularly download emails as eml files to convert to pdf to keep a 
> separate log of conversations etc. Is there an application in Linux 
> that will convert the files to pdf's for me. Also is there anyway to 
> have routine jobs performed as actions within the system. The idea is 
> that when I need to convert a file to pdf from eml I drop it into a 
> folder called edf say and that then carries out the task for me 
> automatically.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Rich

There's this tool: https://github.com/nickrussler/email-to-pdf-converter

Somebody on StackExchange has given some information about how you can 
use this with a shell script to do this in batches: 
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/346982/command-line-tool-to-batch-convert-eml-emlx-mbox-to-searchable-pdfs. 
The only thing you would need to dadd in the `do` loop is a step to 
copy or move the output file to the folder you want to move them to.

You should be able to store the script and run it as a cron job if you 
want it to run on a schedule.

Ciarán



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