Yahoo! Mail Partners With Dropbox To Add File Attachments

Re:Yahoo! Mail Partners With Dropbox To Add File Attachments by pyre on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @01:37PM (#5480814)

  | is Yahoo Mail really in such a bad place that
  | they need to outsource their file attachment
  | hosting?

I imagine that Yahoo! Mail is similar to Gmail in that there are size limits on the emails that you can send. Your email with attachments can't be over 20 ~ 25Mb on Gmail. I think that Hotmail's limit is around 10MB. Partnering with Dropbox would allow one to use their Dropbox space for much larger files.

  | When I'm using outlook, I click on a file once
  | and it downloads, simple as that, I don't want
  | to have to screw around signing up for yet another
  | service just to use it.

Dropbox allows you to share files publicly, IIRC. They could take this a couple of ways:

- When attaching, the user could be presented with a dialog that allows them to select files already in their Dropbox account. Therefore if you wanted to upload a file, you could drop it into your Dropbox folder, then compose an email.

- When attaching, the user uploads the file to their Dropbox account via the Yahoo! Mail web interface.

Both of these ways will probably create a URL to the file on Dropbox (publicly accessible, private with password, obfuscated single-use URL, etc).

[ Also, we're talking about webmail clients like Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail. It really seems like you're comparing them to Outlook+Exchange, which is something completely different. ]

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Re:Yahoo! Mail Partners With Dropbox To Add File Attachments by joecomotion on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:04PM (#5482458)

There are three integration points:

- Share from Dropbox: when composing an email, insert a link to a file already in your Dropbox.

- Save to Dropbox: when reading email, save a received attachment to your Dropbox.

- Upload to Dropbox: if you try to attach file over the 25MB attachment size limit, you're given the option to upload it to your Dropbox and link to the file on Dropbox.

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