I have setup an automation so when someone emails a purchase request, it makes a record and notifies me in Airtable, however it doesn’t look like there is away to email an attachment and have it populate the attachment field. Is this possible?
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Yes, you can receive the attachment into an attachment field by choosing the “expiring attachment URL”. See screenshot below for how this looks in Airtable’s automations.
If you want even more advanced control for watching emails, check out Make’s advanced automations. Make can watch your existing email addresses for emails, or you can setup a special email address with its custom mailhooks.
If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.
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Haha, thank you, 
I’m trying to solve for this same issue as it’s important that I be able to receive attachments. I have the automation set up the same way as best I can tell, but it doesn’t give the option for expiring DownloadUrl, it just says Attachments and the field is grayed out giving me the error of No Valid Nested Options.
Tests have worked fine for text only emails, but I tried sending one with an attachment and it’s nowhere to be found
After you send your email with the attachment, you’ll need to retest the trigger step to load that email into your automation. Then, you can configure your action steps down below.
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