Email to drop

Every Pro and Team account gets a private email address. Send or forward a message to it and the attachments become a drop in your library. You get a notification with the link, and the drop is filed like any other.

Set it up#

1. Copy your address

   Open Settings and find Email to drop. Your address looks like yourhandle+k3x9q2m7ab@in.slingdrop.my: your profile handle (or a short id if you have none) and a random part that makes it unguessable.

2. Choose the defaults

   Pick how long emailed drops last, who can open them, their purpose and a folder. They apply to every message from then on.

3. Send or forward an email

   Add the address as a contact, or set up a forwarding rule in your mail app for receipts, invoices or reports.

What becomes a drop#

• Each attachment becomes a file in the drop. Small inline images (such as logos in a signature) are skipped when the message has other attachments.
• The subject becomes the drop's title (up to 200 characters).
• With attachments, the plain-text body is kept as the drop's message (up to 2,000 characters).
• With no attachments, the body is saved as a note, Note.md, headed with the subject. A message with neither attachments nor text is rejected.
• The drop's source is Email, and the sender's address is kept as “From …”. Find emailed drops under the Email view in your library, or file them with a filing rule on source or sender.

Defaults#

Each emailed drop is created with the defaults you picked under New emailed drops:

How long they lastforever · 90d · 30d · 7d · 24h

Default Forever (kept until you delete them).

Who can open themOnly me · Anyone with the link

Default Only me: the drop is private with no recipients, so only you can open it, in the app or on the web. Share it later from its settings. Anyone with the link makes it public.

PurposeShare · Feedback

Default Share (keep and send files). Feedback turns on comments and approval.

Foldera folder or none

Default none. Your filing rules run first; this folder is used only when no rule matches. If the folder is deleted, emailed drops go back to unfiled.

Limits#

When a message is rejected#

The sender gets a bounce with the reason, for example when the message is over 25 MB, the address is unknown or rotated, the account isn't on Pro or Team, the message is empty, or the drop would go over a plan limit such as storage or the daily number of drops.