Yahoo Builds Dropbox Into Email

Yahoo has partnered with Dropbox to simplify the management of attachments in Yahoo Mail.

From Tuesday, the attached files can be automatically stored in a user’s Dropbox account, making them available even when logging into email is not possible.

The free service is currently available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.

Mutually beneficial

With integration of Dropbox into Yahoo Mail, users can attach files directly from the cloud, even if they are over the 25 MB limit. They can also save attachments directly into a Dropbox account, making them accessible from any computer, smartphone or tablet.

The new features allow users to skip the Dropbox authorisation when a user has already signed into Yahoo Mail on any computer, and enable the creation of a new cloud storage account directly from Yahoo Mail.

“This integration will allow you to share and store files more easily, whether they are holiday photos or important documents like tax returns and research papers,” David McDowell, senior director of Product Management at Yahoo Mail, wrote on the Yahoo Yodel blog.

Under the leadership of Marissa Meyer, Yahoo has been steadily refocusing itself around email and apps. Last month, the company acquired Summly, a news aggregator developed by a British teenager, for a reported £19 million. There are also rumours that Yahoo could take over the successful French video hosting platform Dailymotion.

Meanwhile, Dropbox recently bought Mailbox, a smartphone email application that launched on iOS in February.

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