Save Emails and Attachments Alternatives

Save Emails and Attachments

Save Emails is a Gmail Archiving add-on to help you download email messages and file attachments from Gmail to Google Drive. The email threads are converted into high-quality print-ready PDF files while the file attachments are saved in their original format in Google Drive.

You can use the Gmail archiver to backup important emails, video files, large images, Microsoft Office documents, travel receipts and other emails easily from Gmail to your Google Drive. Attorneys have used Save Emails to download and print all email correspondence related to a litigation with few clicks. Teachers can download student assignments in respective folders automatically.

The program runs in the background, once every hour, but you also have an option to run the rules manually. Go to Add-ons > Saves Emails and Attachments > Manage Rules and select any rule from the dropdown to process it immediately.

You can save the email messages and the included file attachments to your Drive. You can organize the saved emails in date-based sub folders to avoid cluttering the main folder.

It is now possible to customize the file names of saved emails and attachments with variables. For instance, you can put attachment name {{Sender}} {{Subject}} {{AttachmentName}} to include the sender's name and the email subject in the attachment file name.

You can also choose to overwrite files in Google Drive if an attachment with a similar name already exists in the same folder. Google Drive allows you to have multiple files with a similar name in the same folder.

The add-on is free and fully functional. If you however upgrade to the premium version of Save Emails, you get extra features including:

1. Create unlimited number of rules for downloading Gmail messages to Google Drive.
2. Emails are saved at a faster rate (every 15 minutes while the free edition downloads emails once every hour)
3. You get free email support for 90 days.