# Adding attachments **How to add attachments to an email in the email editing window:**
1. Select the files to be sent as attachment. - To send a local file as attachment, click the **Attachments** icon in the button bar. You can also add an attachment by dragging one or several files from a file browser or from the desktop to the email window. - Depending on the configuration, you can send the current version of a file from the Drive app as attachment. To do so, click the **Add from Drive** icon in the button bar. 2. You can remove an attachment if required. To do so hover over an attachment. Click the **Remove attachment** icon .

Note: An email attachment can consume more than 25% of storage space than the locally saved file.

**Options:** - Depending on the configuration, attached images can be minimized if they exceed a specified number of pixels or a specified file size. To do so, select an entry next to **Image size** on the bottom right side of the attachments Note: Images can only be minimized directly after having been uploaded. If you open an email draft or re-load the email editing window, attached images can no longer be minimized. - Depending on the configuration, attachments will not be sent when having reached a certain size limit. In this case, the attachment will be saved in the **Email attachments** folder in the Drive app. The email includes a link to the attachment.