I've used this in the past but came away disappointed as it regularly breaks over attachment sizes. I was using it to store my website backups in dropbox. Instead of this, now I setup a simple python dropbox script on my webserver which allows me to do few good things: 1. No connecting to third party apps. 2. No need to go through email servers, I can directly store the backups to dropbox 3. I still added an email addon layer on it for other usage where I send the files to my own mail server and the script then puts them into dropbox.

There's an IFTTT recipe for this, which lets you use your own email address: https://ifttt.com/recipes/39

Nice. I was thinking about trying to do something like this but with one small added feature. The ability to automatically share the file and inform a group of users that a new file has been shared.

If you could setup groups and then once the file is uploaded to dropbox notify the people that belong to the group (either have a separate address per group or perhaps parse the subject for which groups should be notified).

The title is confusing because the dash can be interpreted as a minus sign.

Agreed. Perhaps a colon would have been more appropriate.

The HN title? It appears somebody changed it.

How is this better than going to dropbox.com and uploading the file?

Certain situations where uploading isnt ideal (on mobile, file is in an old email, etc)

Is there a similar recipe/app to send files to Google Drive?