drag and drop email attachment file from Outlook to a web application

Question

We import data from Excel files into a Java web application.

The users want to drag and drop Excel files incoming as email attachment in Outlook (2003 and 2007) into the web app and browser (Chrome).

Outlook does not allow an Excel file attachment to be dropped into a browser window. What would be the easiest way to enable this?

Answer 1

disclaimer - I'm the creator of this product.

You can use Outlook2Web to do this. It let's you drag files in emails or the emails themselves directly to web applications.