Never lose an important email again – How to save attachments directly from an email into SharePoint

In this guide, we show you how you can save attachments from an email directly out of Outlook into SharePoint.  

We’ve all wasted a lot of time scouring our inboxes, hunting for files in email threads. Get into a good habit of saving your important emails and their attachments in SharePoint so you can easily find them whenever you need them.  

It’s as easy as dragging and dropping your attachments from Outlook and into SharePoint.

How to save attachments from an email in SharePoint.  

1. In SharePoint, create or open a folder where you wish to save your email attachments to.
2. In Outlook, open an email with attachments you want to save directly into SharePoint. 
3. Drag and drop the attachments into the folder in SharePoint. These attachments can then be opened at a later date.  

How to save an email in SharePoint  

1. In SharePoint, create or open a folder where you wish to save your email attachments to. 
2. In Outlook, find an email with attachments you want to save directly into SharePoint.  
3. Click on the email and hold your mouse down, dragging it into your SharePoint folder. This will upload the whole email into SharePoint, and you can open it later to view its contents and download the attachments. 

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