Send files to Dropbox by mail / mail with maildrop

You know how useful Dropbox (and it's free!). It's definitely one of my applications essential. Dropbox, in short, allows us to access files in certain folder (created by Dropbox) both online and offline. That is, there can save important documents, for example, and these will not only sync between multiple PCs, but will also be available from the Dropbox page, once we get to our account. This will ensure, then, that critical and important files are always within reach.

But that's not all. As seen in the past, you can also give many other functions, for example, store our portable applications there and try Dropbox folder like a USB
Maildrop is another application that expands the possibilities of DropBox, giving us a vital function: the ability to send files via email to DropBox. If you are on a PC that has no access to DropBox, just simply send an email to an account that we configured with maildrop, and the program automatically synchronizes the file with DropBox, spread it on PCs and, of course, keeping a copy online.

Any mail we receive in a Gmail account with the tag "DropBox" will be immediately reviewed by maildrop, which will download the file and put in a folder "maildrop" in Dropbox. Perfect for synchronizing files when we are away from home, for example.

Another use more advanced? Say you have uTorrent and want to download the latest episode of Lost, but not at home. Using the monitored folders in uTorrent, you can tell that you review the maildrop folder in Dropbox for new torrents. And simply send an email to our email accounts with maildrop Torrent to identify the file and put it in that folder. In seconds, uTorrent will begin downloading the Torrent! (All this will be unnecessary once the uTorrent 2.1 comes out, allowing us to manage it remotely).

How to configure maildrop?

First, download the file and install it from here: maildrop. We are adding our Gmail account application

Then we must create a filter / label in the Gmail account you want to use for this purpose, following this tutorial: Sorting with Gmail Filters and Labels. For example, we define that all emails arriving with a Subject: DropBox, DropBox labeled, which recognized maildrop. Here's an example:

• Create a filter that searches the Subject: Dropbox

• Now, in the second step, we say that label applies Dropbox

Now, whenever you send an email with the subject "Dropbox" will be identified by maildrop, and it syncs with DropBox!
The uses that we can give, of course, are completely free for everyone. You might want to send photos they found in the PC of a friend and you are on a hard drive immediately, have found an important file they want to save it directly to their PCs? All this is possible thanks to maildrop and Dropbox.