Applets are mostly added by volunteer contributors, thought some companies to add applets for their products.Ĭreate an account at then link cloud services like OneDrive, Dropbox, Evernote etc to your account.Ĭhoose an Applet that suits your needs. There are many applets that link OneDrive, Dropbox and others to actions like email attachments. Also send an email notice when a new attachment is saved (handy if you give the special address to others).Īttachments are saved to an ‘Email It In’ folder or ‘/Apps/Email It’ In for Dropbox. Free accounts can choose to save the message text as well as attachments. A unique email address is allocated to you. Setup is very simple, you can login using your OneDrive or Dropbox accounts. It’s free for attachments up to 5MB and no more than 100 emails a month. EmailItInĮmailItIn is a free service that gives you a unique email address and the option to save attachments to OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, Egnyte etc. IFTTT is a cloud connector that triggers when something happens online to do other things. To broaden your options, look for an IFTTT solution (IF That Then This). Just one of the many missing elements from Quick Steps … but we digress …. There’s no Quick Step option to save attachments to a folder. Of course, you need the OneDrive or other synchronization app running.Īs soon as the attachment is saved to the synced folder, the program will start uploading it to online storage. In Outlook for Windows or Outlook for Mac you can save an attachment to a OneDrive or other synced folder. It’s limited to saving into your linked OneDrive account, not another OneDrive location (say for a friend, group or organization) or a specific folder. From there you can open Office documents with either Office online or your Office software. The attachments are saved to OneDrive folder ‘Email Attachments’. Just below the attachment icons are options to either Download the attachment or Save to OneDrive. to OneDriveīack in 2015, Microsoft added an feature to directly save email attachments to your linked OneDrive account. Once email attachments are in your OneDrive account, you can edit Office documents in Word Online, Excel Online or PowerPoint Online. Link that option with an ’email to cloud’ service so that anything scanned is automatically saved to cloud storage as a backup. Some scanners and services have an option to email their output automatically. If you’re on a slow Internet connection, it’ll definitely be faster to forward the email from a browser based email (because the attachments aren’t downloaded or uploaded to the computer at all). If you’ve received an Office document, PDF or other file as an email attachment, it’s simple to just forward the email to OneDrive. Saving direct from emails is easier and faster than uploading. Here’s how to add files to your OneDrive account by emailing them as attachments.