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Copy email attachment to OneDrive, add link to the attachment and delete attachment from email

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Hello,

 

I want to copy email attachment to OneDrive, add link to the attachment in the email and delete attachment from email.

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    melim Profile Picture
    on at

    Here is a template that saves Office 365 Outlook attachments to OneDrive for Business: Save Office 365 email attachments to OneDrive for Business.

     

    You an extend this template to take the link from OneDrive For Business and store it somewhere, like a Sharepoint list.  Unfortunately there is no way to edit an email with our Outlook connector.

  • Shailu Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Hello,

     

    I was hoping I can shink may mailbox like that - but sadly I undersatnd I can't.

    Thanks for the answer.

     

    Shay

  • melim Profile Picture
    on at

    If you want to shrink your mailbox, you can delete the email with the Outlook connector. But there is not a way to delete the attachment and keep the email.

  • MageshP Profile Picture
    16 on at

    I'm looking for solution to this topic. Has anything changed since it's been 4 years?

  • Tony_Armstrong Profile Picture
    2 on at

    The only way I thinks this can be done, it's to forward the email to your inbox without attachments and delete the original

  • CCSchreiber Profile Picture
    2 on at

    You can create a macro with VBA so with one click it saves the email attachment(s) to a folder you choose, deletes the original attachments from the email (but not the email message), and adds a hyperlink to find the attachment right to the original email which remains in your Outlook.   I've got it working pretty good, except if I run the macro on multiple emails it adds the hyperlink list of ALL removed attachments to ALL emails.  I need it to only list the attachments deleted from each email.

  • eldo Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Using the Microsoft Graph API , 

    I did created a Module , which reads the emails on the Office 365 email boxes ( Specific folders )

    and to upload the attachments to One drive Folder + and to remove the same from the Mails (Delete) after attaching  link to  every specific  file  into the email body (

    because of the huge attachments are replaced with few bytes of link ,  Mail box size will be freed up drastically   so as no requirements  to delete or archive mails 

    Effectively the mailbox capacity is extended with Huge sized Onedrive space - 

     

    The users dos not have any inconvenience in opening attachments  ,  they get mails processed faster , feels better

     

    All Uses standard functions and process 

    All 

  • ML-05020844-0 Profile Picture
    2 on at
    @eldo would it be possible to share the source of your application. We also would like to save email's attachement to a Onedrive/folder and in the mail, replace the attachement by a link to the location where it was saved.

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