# Email attachment import/triggering? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Tags:** Other-Request\ **Created:** [March 11, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58 "2020-03-11T00:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iammia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8dc957/32.png) [@iammia](https://community.parabola.io/u/iammia)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58/1 "2020-03-11T00:11:41Z")
Sometimes I’m working on a csv file that I know needs to be sent through a parabola flow. I’d love to be able to send the file as an attachment to a parabola email address and trigger a pre-selected flow! ---
**Author:** ![Matias\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@Matias\_O](https://community.parabola.io/u/Matias_O)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58/2 "2020-06-04T11:25:52Z")
Would love something like this. **Usecase:** Multiple data sources prefer to send CSV files via email. Some of them have the CSV attached to the email. And some of them provide a link. When you click the link, it downloads the csv. We need these for “Last 7 days” reports. **Current scenario:** 1. Emails are sent to our email 2. We download the CSVs 3. Log into Parabola 4. Upload respective CSVs in Parabola Here’s an ideal representation of what the option could look like: ![Parabola](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/parabola/original/1X/d229b9c076d9c30cad83abd0ba9989077e017fa8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![sachi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/sachi/32/10_2.png) [@sachi](https://community.parabola.io/u/sachi)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58/3 "2020-07-22T22:41:10Z")
Hey @iammia @Matias_O - Check this out: > [@The Pull from email attachment step is here!](https://community.parabola.io/t/the-read-email-attachment-step-is-here/849): > > Hi everyone, I’m Warren and I’m a software engineer at Parabola. Last week, we released a brand new step: Pull from email attachment. You can use this step to email CSV/XLS file attachments directly to a dedicated email address for your specific Parabola flow. Once you set up and publish your flow, sending CSV/XLS files to that dedicated email address will automatically trigger your published flow to run. You can check out the detailed docs [here](https://parabola.io/sources/read-email-attachment). Currently, this step can handle files up to 5M… The new Read Email step should accomplish the use case you mentioned, @iammia. @Matias_O - This new step doesn’t fully support your feature request. Right now, one flow can only be tied to one CSV/XLS file with this step. Hope we can continue making improvements to this step in the future! ---
**Author:** ![Matias\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@Matias\_O](https://community.parabola.io/u/Matias_O)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58/4 "2020-07-23T10:06:09Z")
Thank you for the tag @sachi. This is certainly a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, at this time we do not have one csv per flow requirement but I am positive that it will come up in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Matias\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@Matias\_O](https://community.parabola.io/u/Matias_O)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58/5 "2020-07-24T21:31:47Z")
Something else I noticed @sachi. This would work only if the CSV is attached to an email, right? Not if we receive a link to the csv? ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.parabola.io/brian/32/11_2.png) [@brian](https://community.parabola.io/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58/6 "2020-07-24T21:47:58Z")
Correct, it will only work if attached. If you are getting links, you could try and parse those out with something like Zapier’s email parser, and then send the links to Parabola to use, since our API steps can download CSV files from a URL. ---
**Author:** ![Thinus\_Enslin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@Thinus\_Enslin1](https://community.parabola.io/u/Thinus_Enslin1)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://community.parabola.io/t/email-attachment-import-triggering/58/7 "2022-04-12T07:28:03Z")
What would also be nice if we can parse some info from the email eg parse subject line