Share via Email: Send Files Straight From FTPie
Right-click any file in FTPie and email it to anyone: a clean message with an Open button for each file, sent through your own Gmail, Outlook or SMTP, or through FTPie mail with nothing to set up.
Share via Email lets you send any file to anyone without leaving FTPie. Right-click a file, pick your recipients, add an optional message, and FTPie delivers a clean email with an Open button for each file - sent through your own Gmail, Outlook or SMTP account, or through FTPie mail if you'd rather set up nothing. It’s the email-delivery sibling of Quick Share: same one-right-click simplicity, but the file lands directly in someone’s inbox instead of on a clipboard.
How Share via Email Works
- Right-click any file in FTPie and choose Share via Email
- Enter one or more recipient addresses
- Optionally add a short message - it appears in the email body
- Hit Send. FTPie composes an HTML email with an Open button for each item and delivers it through your own email account, or through FTPie mail
- Your recipient gets a “Files shared with you” email and opens each file or folder in one click
Key Features
- Sends from your own account - with Gmail, Outlook or your SMTP, recipients see the email coming from your real address
- Or FTPie mail, with nothing to set up - share emails and alerts go out from ftpie.link, without your address
- A clean, readable email - your message, then an Open button for every file and folder, not a bare attachment
- Multiple recipients & a personal message - address several people at once and add context in the body
- Works with files on any storage - cloud, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, self-hosted, or local - FTPie handles delivery for you
- Short links and passwords too - Send by email in the share dialog mails whichever link you made there, a short ftpie.link link or one with a password
The email carries an Open button rather than a heavy attachment. If the file already lives on a cloud that supports shareable links, FTPie links to it in place. If it lives on FTP, SFTP, WebDAV or any other storage that can’t mint public links, FTPie uploads it to your default shareable storage when you press Send - the same bridge Quick Share uses, and a line above Send says where - and points the button there. You choose which cloud acts as that bridge in settings.
In Settings > Email, choose Gmail for a guided setup (Gmail users with two-factor authentication generate a one-time app password), or pick Custom to enter your own SMTP host, port, username, sender address, and SSL preference. A Send Test Email button confirms everything works before you share for real. Your credentials stay on your machine, and the mail goes out from your real address.
FTPie mail: nothing to set up
No mail account you want to connect? Choose FTPie mail (no setup) in Settings > Email and share emails go out at once. The mail comes from ftpie.link and doesn't carry your email address, so recipients can't reply to it, and your message can't contain links of its own: the only links in it are the files you share. It is written in English unless you tick “Write share emails in FTPie’s language”. Backup and transfer alerts go to the email address on your licence. FTPie mail comes with FTPie Pro and the trial; a trial has lower limits.
Share via Email vs. Quick Share
Both turn a right-click into a share. Quick Share generates a link you can paste anywhere - ideal for chat, tickets, or docs. Share via Email goes one step further and delivers the file to a specific person’s inbox, with a message attached. Use Quick Share when you need a link; use Share via Email when you know exactly who should receive the file.
Usage Scenarios
Send a finished deliverable to a client, forward a document to a colleague, or get a file off a remote SFTP server and into someone’s inbox - all without opening a browser, a webmail tab, or a separate email client. It pairs naturally with the Screenshot and Screen Recording tools: capture something, then email it straight out in the same workflow.
Common questions
Your choice. Connect Gmail, Outlook or any SMTP server (host, port, username, sender address, SSL) and mail goes through your provider, from your address, with your credentials kept on your PC. Or pick FTPie mail (no setup) in Settings > Email: the mail goes out from ftpie.link without your address, so recipients can't reply to it.
No. The recipient gets an HTML email with an Open button for each file or folder, so large files do not have to survive an attachment size limit.
You generate a one-time app password in your Google account - the setup panel links straight to it - and paste that instead of your normal password. A Send Test Email button confirms the configuration before you rely on it.
Any of them: cloud accounts, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, self-hosted servers and local disks.
Related
- Quick Share - get a shareable link instead of sending mail
- Upload from Windows Explorer - right-click transfers
- Dual-pane file manager - where you pick the file from
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