I can only repeat my previous comment: As we integrate Proton more and more into the organization, this becomes an increasing challenge. So I would appeal for a quick solution and now it is even more urgent.

Plus an option to allow email attachments to be saved automatically in a Proton Drive general default file inbox (folder), and a specific drive file folder per email sender.

An option to upload a file attachment from ProtonMail to a specified folder in ProtonDrive. Saves having to download & reupload it later.

Re add files to PM directly: I would appreciate the option to attach as file over option of linking.
Thanks to Jota for the great suggestion.

Directly saving email attachments to Drive. Manually just browse&save, and with rules automatic saving: when email from x, then automatically save attachments in Drive folder y.

Hey folks,

It would be great if we could save attachments from an email to a Proton Drive folder, and attach files from Proton Drive to emails, either as a link or as a copy.

Thanks!

These and similar Mail-Drive attachement integration features should really be thought out well and I hope they're taking their time. It could create more, you don't want the attachements workflow to interfere with the good practices and conveniences and use cases of Drive, other users who don't rely on attchements so much should still have their Drive focused features taken care of.

There's technical questions how exactly this integration would behave, in many ways because it's probably about a wider set of functions in what would be a whole suite of them in this integration package. For one, there should be clear labeling and GUI indications as to what's a normal attachement and what's "duplicated" in Drive, etc. Sufficient amount of customizability of behavior whatever gets implemented. Sorting and folder structure is very important and if you have to go into Drive to fix and move things around then it's not much of a time saver and convenience. Then there's per-recipient address customizability, perhaps down to sender even, so there's a lot to consider in this conglomerate of integration features, I can't even freely recall everything.

Perhaps Proton can take note of methods of filesystem hardlinks where you have one single data section on disk and multiple equivalent references that function as a file and if either exists, the data will exist, so not just soft shortcuts/links.

It could be interesting to automatically "save" display attachements as files in a special folder in Proton Drive, and it shouldn't take up extra cloud space, and it wouldn't be just a link, in case of hardlink mode if you delete either the email with the attachement or the file in protondrive, the other one should remain, unless you either change options to not do hardlinking (just soft) or you choose to permanently delete both/all references.

It's also a question if deleting attachements is a thing, isn't that normally not possible without modifying email authenticity/originality / hashes? Normally you'd either delete the whole email message or nothing.

Only after some good use will it become more visible as to what kind of behavior is preferred, what's missing, what could be different. I wouldn't like a half-solution for the sake of speedy support.

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As we integrate Proton more and more into the organization, this becomes an increasing challenge. So I will apple for a quick fix.

When opening attachment in Proton Mail, display an icon to link directly to Proton Drive. At present I have to either download and then upload attachment or navigate through entire device file structure to locate Proton Drive. Gmail provides a link to Google Drive. I find it useful.

Only reason why I stay with Google drive. Make this happening soon.

I'm currently storing most of my data in Dropbox, but I would love to move away if Proton Drive could do the same thing. The one hangup I'm having is getting files from email to storage, particularly those submitted via a form on a website. Dropbox allows me to BCC a unique address and automatically save any attachments into a folder.

Info: https://help.dropbox.com/create-upload/email-files-to-dropbox

Alternatively, tighter integration with Proton Mail would be helpful (e.g., setting up a filter or action to save attachments).

If this were to be implemented, an API would be brilliant: the ability to integrate other cloud service providers directly. Albeit this is against Proton's interests as a private company but very much aligns with their vision of an open internet.

When composing an email on the ProtonMail app via mobile, attaching a file directly from ProtonDrive is currently not possible.

Instead, I have to first access ProtonDrive, download the file, and then attach it to the email.

Would it be possible to integrate these two apps to allow direct file attachment from ProtonDrive without the need for downloading?

It would be logical, and entirely in the interests of security, to have the option of saving email attachments directly to the Proton drive of your choice, so that the attachments are not exposed to the Internet or directly readable on the machine that receives them. Confidential attachments often "hang" in the directories of computers using Protonmail. The same space is used elsewhere.
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This is already possible. That’s how I always save my mail attachments to proton drive.

I think it would be useful for mail to be able to save directly to drive. It’s a pain to have to save to files from email and then upload to drive. (IOS)

The number of votes for this feature is, in a way, quite worrying at over 3,100. Yes, it would be convenient and all that, but heck, how much does it take to save an attached file to disk and then upload to Drive, or D/L a file from Drive to disk and then attach to email? It's nothing. Why is it people are getting so lazy in everything these days?! Proton's resources surely would be better utilized on other, extant, genuinely important features/apps and ironing out bugs and other issues. Better to have a few, not necessarily fully featured, but (near-as-possible-)perfect apps than a bunch of buggy apps loaded with features that don't work properly and all sorts. Just my 2pence worth.

Thinking this through, and while I never accept that anything is impossible, this would require some major effort! For starters, a major obstacle could be that both Proton Mail and Drive are independently encrypted. Further, this would require some pretty complex inter-app communication. Plus there's the question, how much of a security risk could this potentially be?

All together it seems far more effort and potential risks than it would be worth. Proton's resources and efforts could be used for more important things IMO.

I would like to have an option to save attachments to Proton drive, like in Gmail to Gdrive.