Mailboxfiler is a simple, reliable and affordable email attachments filer. Mailboxfiler provides a unique email address which is configured to connect to a storage medium. When an email with attachment is sent to the mail address, Mailboxfiler will parse and upload the attachment to the storage medium.
Mailboxfiler could help you in filing email attachments. It can be used in wide range of solutions.
A storage medium is a place where a file can be saved. In Mailboxfiler, a storage medium refers to a location on a cloud storage or a server. A few forms of storage medium supported by mailboxfiler are Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.
The inital release of Mailboxfiler comes with Dropbox, Google Drive, FTP, Amazon Simple Storage Service(S3), Linode Object storage, Digitalocean Spaces, Nextcloud and Owncloud using webdav.
Mailbox is a unique email address which ends with mailboxfiler.net domain. A mailbox address will be like a normal email address. eg. random_hut_07sd@mailboxfiler.net. This address can be configured to a storage medium. When you send an email with an attachment to the mailbox address, Mailboxfiler will automatically parse the email and uploads the attachment to the configured storage medium.
Eg: When creating a mailbox, a unique address random_hut_07sd@mailboxfiler.net is generated. Configure the mailbox by connecting it with Dropbox. Once connected with Dropbox, try sending an email to the provided email address. The attachment in the mail will be uploaded to the dropbox.
With a mailbox created, you could select either all the attachments to be saved or a specific types of file types. Eg: You could select only PDF documents for a billing invoice email uploaded to dropbox.