Get the Mail Attachment utility and configure it such that it checks your Gmail account for new email messages after every ‘n’ minutes. Gmail lets you attach files up to 25 MB in size but if you need to upload even bigger files, use Hotmail.
Setup a Gmail account that will become your Dropbox email address. Before I get into the actual details, here’s a working demo: Here’s an alternate DIY method that lets you transfer files to your Dropbox folders by sending them to an email address. Upload file to Dropbox by Email - Alternate Method You can create similar recipes for upload fies to Google Drive and SkyDrive by email. If you wish, you can change the default “save” location inside the Dropbox folder.Ĭlick the “Create” button to save and activate your “Upload to Dropbox by Email” IFTTT recipe. IFTTT will read the file attachment in the email message and will automatically upload it to your Dropbox folder. Step 6: In the last step, don’t change the default settings. Step 5: Since we need to upload files by email, the action should be “upload file by URL” where the URL is that of our email attachment. If you wish to upload files to another cloud service, choose and activate that service here. Step 4: Once the Email Trigger has been setup, we’ll choose Dropbox as the Action channel. You can use a different hashtag if you like like #db or something you can easily remember. Step 3: The trigger should activate when the email message has #dropbox in the subject line.
We’ll choose the latter option since it will allow us to configure additional email triggers (say for Google Drive and SkyDrive) for the same IFTTT account. Step 2: Email triggers can be activated by either sending an email message to a particular email address ( or by sending an email message with a particular hashtag in the subject. Step 1: Create a new recipe inside IFTTT and set Email as the Trigger channel. Your files will appear in your Dropbox within a minute or two automatically. Just create a new recipe inside IFTTT (see the guide below) and email your files to your IFTTT email address with the email subject as #DROPBOX. You can however use the free IFTTT service to upload files to your Dropbox by Email. Surprisingly Dropbox, the most popular file storage and sync service on the web, doesn’t offer native support for email based file uploads yet.
You can even send remote print commands via email. If you are working with a group, everyone can upload content to a common space without knowing the login credentials. You can upload files from your mobile phone by simply attaching them to an email address without requiring any specific app. You get a unique email address and any files that you send to this email address are uploaded to your online account. Nearly every web application that offers some sort of cloud-based storage space – look at YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Scribd - support file uploads via email.
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