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MailDrop automatically saves email attachments to Dropbox
Dropbox has to be one of the easiest ways to move files around. If you receive a lot of files in your email that you'd like to move into your Dropbox, check out MailDrop.
MailDrop is a Windows executable that will watch a specific folder in an email account, and download any attachments on messages it finds in that folder to the folder you specify in your DropBox account. It can connect to any IMAP mail account, and comes pre-configured to work with Gmail.
One use I can imagine is that you could set up a slide show to show images from a DropBox folder. Then, you could add images to the slide show remotely simply by emailing yourself files (or receiving files) and putting them in the corresponding folder.
MailDrop is likely only useful in specific scenarios. If you need it, you can probably already see how you'd use it.
[via Lifehacker]
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Subscribe to commentsGregJan 28th 2010 12:10AM
I'll go ahead and give an example of how great this is for me.
I already get my school's emails forwarded to my Gmail. I recieve study guides, lectures, and powerpoints in my email all the time. I usually download these straight into a folder in my Dropbox which contains all school work (I access it all from my iPhone so I rarely carry any papers around).
The hassle is I usually have wait till I get home and download the file and manually drop it into Dropbox. Now I can just view the email from my iPhone, then immediately jump to the already downloaded attachment in my Dropbox.
Honestly this is an amazing solution for me.
StudioJan 28th 2010 4:24PM
Interesting feature,
I recommended everyone to use dropbox for storing and synchronizing securely and for free 2gb of files.