I would like to be able attach an email to a card

Timothy Walsh

Hello Trello fans,

I would like to have the capability to attach one or more emails to a card. Note, this is not the same thing as creating a new card from an email (which I understand is already possible).

I have a rather long workflow, and several cards (contracts) which take several months to move through that workflow. At certain points, people send me emails which relate to these contracts. Sometimes they are the trigger for the card to move from one phase of the workflow (list) to the next. I would like to be able to attach the email (with attachments) to the cards as I move them from one list to the next.

Please let me know if you would also like this feature, or if it is possible to do this already. I'm using gmail, so if it can be done from there, that would be great.

Tim

Devon Henderson

Hi Timothy! 

Each Trello card has an email address associated with it, and any emails you send to that address have their content added as a comment and its attachments added to the card as attachments. Open the card, then in the card's sidebar, at the bottom, you'll see Share and more... Click that, then under Email for this card is an address you can copy.

What I like to do is add the email address for important cards as a contact in Gmail. Then I can forward any important emails to that address easily and its content and attachments end up on the card. I always start the contact's name with Trello, too, so that I can just type "Trello" in the To: field and choose from the list.

If you want to have a link back to that particular email, just copy the URL and paste it into the message body before you hit send.