You've probably added attachments, such as photos or document files, to your email messages from time to time. When adding those attachments, you most likely selected them from the hard drive on your computer, a flash drive, or maybe even OneDrive. Now you have another option. If you store files on a file storage site such as Box or Dropbox, you can attach those files to your email messages.
How do storage accounts work behind the scenes?
Outlook.com uses public APIs to communicate with your storage account. This communication enables Outlook to display your list of files and to share files from that list with recipients of your email messages. To enable the sharing, Outlook needs your basic storage account information and permission to access it.
You can remove a storage account at any time. After the storage account is removed, Outlook no longer stores any information associated with it. All files you’ve already shared from that storage account will remain shared with your email recipients.
Connect a storage account
You can connect a storage account from an email message or the Storage Accounts page.
To connect a storage account from an email message-
Start an email message.
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Select Attach.
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Select the storage account you want to connect.
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Provide a username and password for the storage account (you must have an active account to connect). This is what enables Outlook to access the files.
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Select
> Options > Attachment options > Storage accounts. -
Select the storage account you want to connect.
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Provide a username and password for the storage account (you must have an active account to connect). This is what enables Outlook to access the files.
Remove a storage account
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In Outlook.com, select
> Options > Attachment options > Storage accounts. -
Select Remove.
