Easily search, download, extract and save emails with attachments with simple setup. Fully functional for personal use.
v3.3 build 1020
Windows 7 or greater, .NET 4.5+
Works with any email service
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Download email attachments in a snap! Filter emails or attachments to download, then extract and/or save emails with attachments with easy setup. Streamline your productivity with this widely deployed, reliable, secure, privacy-focused automation tool you can trust. Mail Attachment Downloader is a standalone powerhouse — no Outlook/desktop client, plugins or browser extensions required. It integrates seamlessly with your existing email providers to automate complex email workflows and file organization right out of the box.
Mail Attachment Downloader uses industry-standard protocols to securely and reliably download or process your data locally, ensuring your emails remain on your server without interference or cloud data brokers. Use granular filters—including file type, sender, and advanced date ranges—to download exactly what you need, exactly when you need it. Flexible file structure and naming based on from, to, subject and more.
CNET Editor Quote: Download your email attachments to your PC with a single click using Mail Attachment Downloader. This app works out of the box with most of the popular email services and is highly customizable. You can set multiple filters, so only the attachments that matter to you will be saved.
Softonic Editor Quote: Mail Attachment Downloader is ideal for enhancing productivity by streamlining the attachment retrieval process, allowing users to focus on their tasks without the hassle of managing multiple files.
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Mail Attachment Downloader bridges the gap between your inbox and your core business systems, providing a robust, standardized way to automate high-volume email processing.
Enterprise Reliability: With the PRO Server version, your automation never sleeps. It operates as a Windows Background Service — meaning it runs 24/7 without requiring an active user login. Ensure your data is saved, organized, and audited even while you're away.
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Connect to popular email servers
Search & filter the attachments you need
Fast Email Downloads
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The FREE version is for personal use only. You can use the FREE version in a business setting for trial purposes for short periods of time (eg. a week).
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The FREE edition is fully functional software available for personal use ONLY.
You can use the FREE edition in a commercial or business setting for testing out basic functionality for short periods of time (eg. a week).
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With just a few clicks, you are able to set the app to create a new folder for each person who has sent you attachments and then download them based on size, file type, email address, date range, and text in the email.
Mail Attachment Downloader is simple, quick and does what it says on the tin.
Fax communication remains essential in our healthcare workflow. Previously, staff had to manually save email-based faxes and import them into our EMR. With Mail Attachment Downloader, we have automated this process, saving hundreds of hours and improving efficiency—at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Though we use only some features, its flexibility and ease of setup have allowed us to scale beyond our original goals.
We have used Mail Attachment Downloader in dozens of client projects over 8+ years. It is incredibly versatile—ideal for modern authentication, cloud or on-prem email systems. We often call it 'Outlook rules on steroids'. We make particular use of the attachment and download functionality (e.g. unzip archives, convert files to PDF) and often use command line tools of our own to extend the capabilities further. It's great just having an email-focussed Swiss knife in our pocket which we can confidently deploy in just a few hours to introduce consistent email processing, saving time and effort for our clients
We have integrated Mail Attachment Downloader in various client environments with great success. It is reliable, supports multi-account setups, and offers powerful rule-based filtering for customized distribution to each client. The software is stable, flexible, and easy to implement—an excellent solution we confidently recommend.
A very good solution that we recommend without hesitation.
Mail Attachment Downloader is exceptionally easy to configure, but as with any software, questions and occasional challenges have arisen. In every instance, their support team has been outstanding—highly responsive, knowledgeable, and genuinely helpful. If other companies (Microsoft included) offered this level of support, working in IT would be a far more enjoyable experience.
I love the program. It has been a huge time saver and I love that it will download specific email attachments to the NAS to be accessible by all employees, even when I am not in the office.
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FAQs
Mail Attachment Downloader is a standalone local application that processes data on your system without cloud intermediaries. The software communicates directly with mail servers for maximum privacy.
For more information, refer to the following: Security | Privacy | Terms | Email Server Configuration Help
The program identifies new mail based on when it last successfully downloaded attachments.
So when you run it for the first time, since no attachments have been downloaded yet, it will download all mail attachments in your email inbox after which it will only scan for mail attachments that arrive from thereon (including read and unread mail).
The default setting will only download messages since last download including unread mails that have not been downloaded by the program. IMPORTANT: If you switch this setting to All mail at any time, any state will be lost and the next time you select messages since last download it will download from the start again. To avoid this, select a date filter (see FAQ below titled "How do I download from a given date?").
Subsequent runs by clicking the 'Connect And Download' button will download remaining mail attachments that have not been downloaded yet until it has downloaded all attachments till the present day.
If you don't want to wait to download all email attachments the first time, set the 'start date' from which you want to download your attachments in the Search tab. Leave the 'end date' unchecked to indicate that there is no end date.
If you you want to re-download the same attachments that the program had already downloaded in the past, choose Search -> Check In -> All mail. You may also want to check the Inline Content checkbox if you want to download attachments that are inlined. For certain types of mail servers this will be checked by default.
The application tries to default to the most secure means of connection and authentication available - see more info about security. In certain cases, you will need to generate application passwords to enable login to the application (like in the case of Yahoo as Yahoo does not support OAuth yet which is the recommended form of authentication).