IFTTT day: Saving email attachments to Dropbox

IFTTT simple recipe, which automatically saves attachments from Gmail to Dropbox service special folder.

A lot of freelancers, especially in remote work using e-mail as the main channel of communication with your customer. They discuss in detail the correspondence, receive new and send completed assignments as attachments to emails. It is therefore very important to ensure reliable and safe operation of this channel and data backup. Today we learn about IFTTT recipe that provides automatic saving of all, sent via Gmail, files in your dropbokse.

For operation of this recipe we will need a trigger Any new attachment in the channel Gmail. Every time you receive an email with an attachment, it will trigger the action Add file from URL in the channel Dropbox. Note that attachments are automatically saved in a folder whose names match the sender's address. This can be useful if you are working on several projects and get files from different people.

Thus, with this easy recipe, you will protect yourself from that important email with an attachment lost among unparsed mail is accidentally deleted or sent to the spam. In any case, all the necessary files are waiting for you in your Dropbox folder, neatly sorted by sender.