Where do your email attachments actually live?
Signed approvals, marked-up contracts and final reports rarely arrive as documents. They arrive as email attachments and too many of them never leave the mailbox.
This guide sets out why attachments fall outside SharePoint governance, what that costs and how filing at the point of send closes the gap.
The core problem
Why the attachment is the record and why one signed file can sit in a dozen mailboxes with no version of record.
Why it keeps happening
Manual filing that takes too many clicks, plug-ins that don’t survive New Outlook and tenant sprawl after a merger.
What good looks like
Emails and attachments filed together at the point of send, with SharePoint metadata inherited, PDF conversion on filing and IT control over which sites users see.
The cost of getting it wrong
Disputes you can’t evidence and project knowledge that leaves with the person, whichever tenant or site it should have been filed to.
Get the guide
See how Ideagen Mail Manager files emails and attachments to SharePoint Online without leaving Outlook.