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Upload Files to your Dropbox Folder by Email

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Upload Files to your Dropbox Folder by Email

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So here’s an alternate DIY method that kind of offers best of both worlds. You can transfer files to your Dropbox folders by sending them to an email address, there are no limits and you aren’t dependent on another service.

Step 1. Setup a Gmail account that will become your Dropbox email address. Gmail lets you attach files up to 25 MB in size but if you need to upload even bigger files, use Hotmail.

Step 2. Get the Mail Attachment utility and configure it such that it checks your Gmail account for new email messages after every ‘n’ minutes.

Step 3. Set the “Save Location” inside the Mail Attachment  utility to any sub-folder of your main Dropbox folder (you may call it “email-uploads”). Hit the close button to minimize the app to the system tray and it will continue checking for new files in the background.

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