You can use a different hashtag if you like like #db or something you can easily remember. Step 3: The trigger should activate when the email message has #dropbox in the subject line. We’ll choose the latter option since it will allow us to configure additional email triggers (say for Google Drive and SkyDrive) for the same IFTTT account. Step 2: Email triggers can be activated by either sending an email message to a particular email address ( or by sending an email message with a particular hashtag in the subject. Step 1: Create a new recipe inside IFTTT and set Email as the Trigger channel. Your files will appear in your Dropbox within a minute or two automatically. Just create a new recipe inside IFTTT (see the guide below) and email your files to your IFTTT email address with the email subject as #DROPBOX.

You can however use the free IFTTT service to upload files to your Dropbox by Email. Surprisingly Dropbox, the most popular file storage and sync service on the web, doesn’t offer native support for email based file uploads yet. You can even send remote print commands via email. If you are working with a group, everyone can upload content to a common space without knowing the login credentials. You can upload files from your mobile phone by simply attaching them to an email address without requiring any specific app. You get a unique email address and any files that you send to this email address are uploaded to your online account. Nearly every web application that offers some sort of cloud-based storage space – look at YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Scribd - support file uploads via email.

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