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Show HN: OneBox.io – Sync Email Attachments to Dropbox, Box, GDrive, OneDrive
- knd775 12y agoWhile it seems like a neat idea, do you really want so many companies to have your data? It seems like the risks of data theft is compounded.
- elopez 12y agoThat's fair, if you don't trust any cloud storage drives with your data, this might not be for you. Not sure what would make a cloud drive less trustworthy than an email provider, though.
- knd775 12y agoIt's not necessarily that I am worried about any of them, but it is much more likely that at least one of them will have a security breach than it is with just one provider. For instance, I use Dropbox. If Box has a breach, I am fine. I am fine unless Dropbox has a breach. If I use This service, then my data is compromised if any provider has a security breach.
- elopez 12y agoI'm not sure I follow. With OneBox.io, you only connect your email to one cloud drive, so you should be fine unless Dropbox has a breach.
- alided1 12y agoi use it for all my accounting needs. Very handy when you have tons of attachments to go over.
- fmilman 12y agoEmail attachments are nicely organized and easily searchable. I'm using it to connect all my accounts and manage attachments in one place.
- clemsen 12y agoOnce you know that a service like this exists you want it. I won't sign up, because I am unsure about giving another company access to my mail account. Do you know about a similar solution that can be run on an own server?
- elopez 12y agoI don't know of any solution that can be run on your own server, but that's a valid concern. Since I developed this product, I can tell you that we don't store any attachments and our communication with your email is fully encrypted.
- stevekemp 12y agoWriting something to pull out attachments from a set of Maildir directories isn't too difficult. e.g. I wrote this quick hack recently https://gist.github.com/skx/ba07ba7fbb0788c6ba68 https://gist.github.com/skx/ba07ba7fbb0788c6ba68 If you're looking for more robust/common software take a look at the "mpack" package of tools. Syncing to dropbox is left as an exercise, but presumably you'd just configure your attachments to be saved into the magic folder, perhaps on a per-suffix basis. (e.g. ~/shared/attachments/jpg/foo.jpg)
- devguru1 12y agoWriting a hack as you said is easy. Writing a usefull product is hard. Feel the difference...
- zwieback 12y agoVery cool idea but would never use it with my corporate account where the interesting attachments are.
- elopez 12y agoThat's fair. Do you know what, if any, kinds of assurances or measures would make it viable for your corporate account?
- zwieback 12y agoSorry, I really don't but our IT has pretty strict rules about what we can do with our email. I'm guessing you would have to work directly with the corporate IT departments to make sure they can audit security.
- nqduy 12y agoIt's not working for OneDrive. After I signed in, it redirected me to the homepage. GDrive works.
- elopez 12y agoAh, thanks for letting me know! I'll take a look to see what could be wrong.
- deanclatworthy 12y agoThere is an ifttt for this: https://ifttt.com/recipes/98759-save-all-your-gmail-attachments-to-dropbox https://ifttt.com/recipes/98759-save-all-your-gmail-attachme... What benefits does your service offer over this setup?
- elopez 12y agoThanks for the feedback! This ifttt is only for Gmail --> Dropbox, my service supports any email client to any major cloud drive. Additionally, we automatically organize your attachments by filetype, so it's easy to find them later. And if you want to save on inbox space, we have the option of replacing attachments in incoming e-mails with the links to where they're stored on your cloud drive.