Files
Every attachment, in one list.

Search by name, filter by type, see what each file weighs and open the message it came on.

In short

Where do email attachments live?

An attachment is a file carried inside an email, encoded next to the text. The mailbox keeps it with that message, so finding a file usually means finding the email first.

How it works

Search the names, filter the type

Type part of a filename and the list narrows. Pick a type to cut it further.

What you sent counts too

A file you sent sits beside the ones that came in, with the address it left from and a link to its message.

Delete what you uploaded

Pick one upload or several and delete them. Received and sent files stay with their message, and so does an upload a message still uses.

What each type filter matches

Each filter matches the start of a file's content type, not its extension.

image/Imagesapplication/pdfPDFsaudio/Audiovideo/Videotext/Text

What you get

In the product today

Open or download

Any row opens the file in a new tab or saves it.

Counted, not capped

The total at the top adds up every file you can see.

Back to the message

Jump from a file to the thread it came on.

Only your addresses

On a shared mailbox you see files for the addresses granted to you.

Good practice

Getting the most out of it

  1. 01

    Name it before you send

    A file you send keeps its name here, so a clear one is easier to find.

  2. 02

    Narrow by type first

    Pick PDFs or images first, then a few letters of the name will do.

  3. 03

    Clear the heavy ones

    Filter to video to see what takes the room, then delete the uploads nothing uses any more.

Questions

Asked often

Keep going

Works well with

Attachments

Pick them with the paperclip or paste them in. A pasted image lands in the body rather than the file list, and a file dragged onto the composer is not attached at all. In a mailbox hosted on Nextmail, incoming files sit in object storage, one object each, and a file is fetched only when you open or download it.

Files on your own domain

Download links for the files you send on a subdomain you choose, such as files.yourdomain.com, instead of the Nextmail address.

Scoped visibility

One address means one address.

Start

Your domain,
your mail.

Point a domain at Nextmail and read it in a mailbox built around it. The free plan covers one domain.