Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Saving Time with Email Uploads

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Cloud collaboration. It’s all the rage these days, and rightly so – there’s real value to be had in ditching email as your go-to solution for working together on files.

Even after making the switch to Box, there are probably times you find yourself wading through email attachments from non-users.  It’s a pain to open them on your desktop, keep track of revisions and store the files sensibly – there’s got to be a better way!

The solution:  One of my favorite tools for taming email threads, our Email Upload feature.

Here’s how it works: You pick a folder in your account and enable email uploads.  We generate a unique address for the folder.  You attach files to your message, send to the unique address, and – presto! – the attachments are uploaded right to your Box account.

But that’s not all: I like to store attachments on Box, so I added my folder’s upload address to my email address book. Now every time I get a message with attachments, I’ll just forward it to the upload address and the files are sent to my folder. Pretty nifty – and a great way to stay organized. (Do be sure that the attachment doesn’t get dropped from the email you forward, though.)

Just a few quick time-saving tips from a Box Support Rep – let us know if you have questions!

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  • Bpxuer

    The link to enable email uploads is broken :O

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for sharing that! However I can not see this link: enable email uploads