How to send a file request using Dropbox Forget setting up shared folders in order to receive files from fellow Dropbox users; file requests are here.

Once that’s done, you’ll have a custom email address to which you can email files directly into your Dropbox.

The ability to email files directly to your Dropbox account sounds like a deceptively simple feature, and a quick Google search confirms that it is widely demanded.

Sending huge files over email can often be a problem, mostly because many email clients don’t let you send attachments over a certain size. But there is a way you can have people send you file ...

You compose and send an email to the service, and, depending on the size of the file, it'll show up in your Dropbox folder in short order. Habilis is a free web-based service.

SendToDropbox offers a simple way for people to send files to your Dropbox service over email.