Show HN: Email files to Google Drive, Skydrive, or Dropbox

Re:Show HN: Email files to Google Drive, Skydrive, or Dropbox by denzil_correa on Saturday May 18, 2013 @02:53PM (#5729905)

I was reading the privacy policy and this caught my eye [0].

    We never store the contents of your emails. Those simply pass through our 
    servers directly to your storage provider without ever touching our own hard 
    drives. The one exception to this currently is Skydrive. Their upload API does 
    not provide the options to allow us to stream directly to their servers. We will 
    change this when they fix their API. To support Skydrive we need to write a 
    temporary file to disk which is deleted immediately.

Is it unusual for Skydrive API not to support something like this.

[0] https://www.emailitin.com/privacy

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Re:Show HN: Email files to Google Drive, Skydrive, or Dropbox by baudehlo on Saturday May 18, 2013 @03:07PM (#5729966)

The problem is they don't accept PUT or POST without a content-length and email attachments don't give you a length up front.

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Re:Show HN: Email files to Google Drive, Skydrive, or Dropbox by bluehex on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:58AM (#5731867)

It seems if you can write to a file, you could write to an in memory buffer instead, right?

edit: As a user I wouldn't really have a problem with the temporary file. But it would allow you to remove the exceptional clause in your terms.

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