Use the Foxmail to change the Gmail mailbox to a network disk

Now the mail Service provider's mailbox capacity is more and more large, to Gmail, it can be used as a network disk. But most friends are using the Web to send and receive mail, so you need to open the browser, enter the URL, and then enter the email account password login, and finally upload the attachment. In fact, the use of mail clients to send and receive mail is more straightforward, but also can quickly upload files to the mailbox. For example, using Foxmail, Gmail can be used as a network disk, quickly upload files.

First step, set the mail client to IMAP access

To sync documents directly to your Gmail mailbox in Foxmail, you need to set up your mail access in Foxmail to IMAP. When you create a Gmail account in Foxmail, select "IMAP" When you select "Incoming mail server type" so that you can directly operate the messages in the server from the local mail client (see Figure 1).

Figure 1 Selecting "IMAP" when choosing "Incoming mail server type"

Tips: Why do you want to set up an IMAP access mode?

IMAP access allows you to access and manipulate information on the mail server as you would access and manipulate local information, support random drag of mail between local folders and server folders, or store files on your local hard disk on the server, or retrieve the files from the server locally. The client can establish any hierarchy of mailboxes on the server, and can move messages between folders flexibly, using this "sync" operation with the server to enable fast uploading of local documents.

Step two, create a sync folder in Foxmail

When you create a Gmail account in Foxmail and access Gmail in IMAP, the "label" in Gmail is displayed as a folder in Foxmail.

To test whether this is a synchronized success, we create a subfolder in a folder, such as "Backup," and move a message from the parent folder to "Backup." Now open Gmail on the Web page and you'll find that the "label" of this email has become "original folder/backup", meaning that the folders created in Foxmail have been synchronized to Gmail, so you can use this feature to quickly upload documents (as shown in Figure 2).

Figure 2 Folder

Step three, sync the document to the mailbox attachment

Once you have created the Sync folder, you can then upload the document to Gmail. Press the keyboard "CTRL + N" key to create a new e-mail message, copy the contents of the document directly, then click on the Menu "mail/Save as draft", then go to the "Outbox", select the content of the document that you just wrote directly drag and drop it into the "Backup" folder, you start automatically uploaded. Of course, in addition to the important document data in the message body content upload, can also be important data documents as the attachment of the message, the same way to complete the attachment upload.

Tip: In addition to Gmail, other support for the IMAP protocol in the bulk of the mailbox can also use the same method to achieve rapid file upload. For example QQ mailbox, the operation method is identical, just before setting up QQ mailbox account in Foxmail, please go to QQ Mailbox Web page "Mailbox setting → account", select "Open IMAP/SMTP Service" and "Collect My folder" These two items, then save the setting.