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E-mailing files to Dropbox

I tried to find out how to send files to our Dropbox by e-mailing it. Google Search tells me about sendtodropbox.com, but while setting that up, my antivirus tells me that one webpage would be riskful.

Ok, I can accept the risk, but now I want to know if the service sendtodropbox is a service of dropbox.com or isn't it?

Regards,

Guido

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Fearg

Hi Guido,

First off sendtodropbox.com is not us and is in now way associated with Dropbox, so I really recommend not inputting any personal data into that website.

Secondly why do you need to email to your Dropbox account? You can add files to your Dropbox account in a number of ways, you can use the desktop application by just dragging and dropping files in the Dropbox folder on your computer and they will be uploaded automaticallly for you.

You can also use the web uploader to add files to your account, so if you are on any computer, you login to your account and upload files, just make sure to logout again if it's not your computer.

We have a super nice Help Centre article here showing you how to upload to your account.

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Fearg

Hi Guido,

First off sendtodropbox.com is not us and is in now way associated with Dropbox, so I really recommend not inputting any personal data into that website.

You can also use the web uploader to add files to your account, so if you are on any computer, you login to your account and upload files, just make sure to logout again if it's not your computer.

We have a super nice Help Centre article here showing you how to upload to your account.

Rich

Fearg wrote:
Secondly why do you need to email to your Dropbox account?

Convenience. If I receive an email and I'm not on my computer (or I'm on one of my many computers that doesn't have Dropbox installed), I have to download the attachment, open a browser, go to dropbox.com and upload the file. Or I can just forward the email to my sendtodropbox.com email address and then I'm done. The attachment is automatically saved to my Dropbox.

Fearg

Hey Rich,

Thanks for the feedback!

The only thing extra I would add is that the Dropbox gmail integration does help with this in that you get the option to save an attachment to your Dropbox straight from gmail. I appreciate though that this still may not suit everyone and I'll make sure to pass your comments along to our development team!

Elja_Guido_vH

Hi Fearg,

I am using Dropbox with our 'community' which constist of computer-nitwits. I do not want to learn new things to these people (most of them are older than 70 years).

Because most of the documents are static, it should be appreciated they can e-mail it to Dropbox.

Now I ask them to mail it to me.

Thanks your reply.

Regards,

Guido

Darius Y.

Here is the thing:

Our fax machine can either store files at a local computer or send it via email. Whenever the computer is down, the fax is missed, so we choose to email it. So when we turn on any computer that has the Dropbox, we see the fax in PDF.

We used to use a @sendtodropbox.com email until it stopped working. I cannot find a free alternative that works reliably!

dov

Yup, same thing here. I scan from Scanner at work direct to email address that used to exist within sendtodropbox.com, now theres no alternative. This functionality is so important and probably unknown to most folks...please sort it..

Openmindtherapy

I'd also like to be able to forward emails directly to the dropbox folder of my choice. I frequently get receipts emailed to me and want to store them away for tax purposes. On my desktop I save them as pdf and then save them to a dropbox folder. On my ipad I can't do this and would like to save them off and delete the email.

Here is a reason to want to email directly to Dropbox: a friend would like me to receive a document that is stored on his iPad in iBooks (no, not a book). The only thing one can do with iBooks is print or email. I'd like him to be able to email it directly to my dropbox.

MacMertz

I also would like to be able to send an email with an attachment and have the attachment saved to a particular DropBox folder. Saving attachments manually is time consuming on a computer, and much harder on an iPad or phone.

sarathegee

I'm having applicants send in their resume. I want to have them send their resumes to an email address that directly attaches all files in a Dropbox folder so that I can filter resumes that way. I'd love this feature if possible. I know box.net has it, and I don't want to switch!

This is also useful for organizing conferences. For example, lots of submissions come in via email, and it's easier to have them organized in dropbox as opposed to filtering emails, saving, etc.

Rich

You can set this up with IFTTT. Your applicants wouldn't be able to submit their resumes directly to the IFTTT email (because IFTTT wouldn't know who they were for as it's keyed on the sending email address), but they could submit them to your email (or one you specify) and you would then forward them to IFTTT.

https://ifttt.com/applets/32391p-upload-an-email-attachment-to-dropbox

MauiMacMan

I emailed the owner and author of sendtodropbox who said he would make it work again, after pulling the plug. He may not have? I want to go on record to ALSO ASK DROPBOX developers to include the ability to send to dropbox via email as I am often sending files and images that I would live to have avail when not at the library where
I don't have my dropbox.... for example. TIA for adding emailing to dropbox!

MaxJacob

Dropbox offre un'infità di API per sviluppatori eun email provider Italiano ha dotato le proprie caseel di posta di una funzionalità che credo si unica: Il caricamento automatico degli allegati alle mail ad un account di Dropbox, ma la cosa più importante è che il caricamento avviene lato server cioè io spedisco una email con allegato a qualcuno che ha un'account servermx (cosi si chiama la società servermx.com) e l'allegato viene salvato nell'account dropbox collegato anche se la posta non viene letta.

E' una caratteristica al momento unica, credo.

Saluti

Max

lee2154

I was wondering what the status is with DropBox and/or SendToDropBox regarding the ability to email attachments directly to a DropBox folder and to ANY DropBox folders, partcularly shared ones.

I work in an organization that uses DropBox to share voicemail WAV and Fax PDF files among several employees. The voiceMails and Faxes are sent to an email address by our voip/fax service provider. Right now we have to use a shared email address which is awkward. By having, for instance, all the voicemail WAV files automaitically go to a shared DropBox folder we can avoid multiple responses to callers because the first responder would then delete the WAV file from the Shared DropBox folder. The same goes for FAXs. Once the first responder processes the FAX they can delete it to avoid another employee also responding.

I am very surprised DropBox doesn't see the value in such a feature and why they haven't already developed it or found a third party to develop it. The SendToDropbox App is very limited and not useful in an organization where folks collaborate. They say they are working on an enhancement - I wonder what the status is. I would be willing to pau for the upgraded service option if they had this feature.

MaxJacob

I translate in English my previous comment about this question:

Dropbox offers several APIs for developers and an Italian e-mail provider has equipped its own mail box with a feature that I think is unique: The automatic upload to Dropbox account, but the most important thing is that the upload is done on the server side ie I send an e-mail with attachment to someone who has a servermx account (this is called the company servermx.com) and the attachment is saved in the linked dropbox account even if the mail is not read.

It's a unique feature at the moment, I think.

Obviously it is based on dropbox's Apis .

Servermx.com it's the site. It's not free but one account it's more than enough for manage tje attachments .

regards

Max

mkp101

I see that Zapier offers a way to do this. I haven't tried it myself, but I've tried other Zapier functions and been pleased with the way they worked.

I'd prefer not to use a third party service like Zapier. Does Dropbox offer an API to add files to Dropbox by sending an email?

Mark

I was just going to add Zapier to the list @mkp101.

In terms of the API question yes they do offer this as an API (because others are already using it - Zapier and SendToDropbox as examples), but, can I suggest asking any questions about it (how etc.) directly via the API Forum area? The team there are spot on!