Possible to drag and drop e-mails to SharePoint list in Outlook?

Question

When connecting Outlook and a SharePoint document library is it possible to add e-mails from Outlook to the library inside Outlook using drag and drop or some other method? if some sort of addon is needed I'd prefer a really, really simple solution; ie. not a suite of Outlook-SharePoint integration features.

Answer 1

You can configure SharePoint to receive E-mails, the only easy way would be to forward all your e-mails to that dedicated sharepoint e-mail or I could think of one easy solution: Use the SharePoint webdav feature ("Explorer View"). You could map the network location to a network drive and just drag and drop Outlook items into that folder. SharePoint will display the messages and Outlook will most probably open them from there.

A "drag-and-drop" solution to get just some email's to Sharepoint would need to be custom coded. Think about the implications:

• The mails need to be converted to some web-friendly format (i.e. including sender information etc.)
• The e-mail needs to be stored in SharePoint
• The attachments will need to be stored somewhere else in SharePoint
• The e-mail needs to reference the attachments in some way

If you're into third party solutions, there are some good ones available:

• SharePoint Outlook integration

"allows an easy 'drag and drop' action to copy or move specific emails to document libraries"

• Colligo Contributor

"The Outlook Add-in provides a convenient way to synchronize SharePoint document libraries (including sub-folders) with Outlook folders. Users can easily copy or move documents, emails, and attachments between Outlook and SharePoint - either manually with a simple drag-and-drop or automatically using Outlook rules. "