I have exported an mbox file with a bunch of emails that have attachments. I want to convert this to a series of .pdfs, each .pdf an email with its attachments. Is there a piece of software that will do this easily on a mac?
Yeah, that's what I've been trying to use but I can't figure it out because I'm a dummy.SysTools MBox Converter
Attachments are named with their native name and kept in native format. The software is designed to use the linked attachment reader function in Adobe Acrobat, which is annoying, because (a) only Adobe has that function and (b) I want an in-line production and I want it all to be .pdf. Another idiosyncrasy is that it copies the native attachment only once, into the attachment directory, so if the message is forwarded you don't get a true, in-tact .pdf production. All of the forwarded emails point to the same native copy.How are the attachments named in the other directory? It's probably easier to just write a shell script to fix this up.
To convert a bunch of emails and their attachments to .pdfs, duh.Let’s take a step back - why are you doing this?
You're not wrong, at the most sophisticated level of document production. That said, different cases and different courts have different expectations. This case has a negotiated protocol for production of .pdf files. As I said...don't expect it to be rational.In terms of litigation would the forensics of the process hold up to legal scrutiny? For entities which may be asked to produce emails for use in a discovery, etc normally we’d be suggesting mail archives from a compliant mail archiving service (Smarsh or whatever).
For legal services with mbox, emls or psts there are also ingestion services or products who can make this not a problem for you. The nice thing is that you can add everything to these service so searching for keywords is also made much easier, particularly when you’re looking st potentially millions of messages.
With that said, each law firm I’ve worked with does things differently so I am probably talking out of my ass