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Bob E.
10 years agoHelpful | Level 5
View .eml files on iPhone
When I travel, I load my travel documents into Dropbox so I can have easy access on my iPhone. Most documents display fine but I am unable to view .eml, (Windows email files), on my iPhone or iPad. I...
- 9 years ago
Please note that Dropbox no longer claims to support opening *.eml files as per its help section: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/preview
Oliver R.4
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
We use Dropbox as company working on Macs and this issue is a major headache. As we save all project related files in a special "tree" on DB we are forced to save them as rtf and all attachments such as pdf, jpg etc. separately. This means lot of work time is used to work around such a "simple problem". I think it is kind of arrogant from DB not to solve this problem. We will check when do the next research (end of the year) and if we find another provide we will definitely go away from Dropbox.
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