Are your email exchanges gathered by case file?
One email goes out, another replies, an attachment gets added: within a few days, the same request is living in four different mailboxes. The day someone needs to retrace its history, nobody knows where to look anymore.
Galaxy Conseils • Banking & financial institutions sector
On October 5, Aïcha sends her advisor Serge a subsidized-financing request to modernize Société Alpha's workshop, supporting document attached. Serge forwards the message to the credit analyst. The analyst replies to Serge. Serge replies to Aïcha. A few days later, Aïcha follows up — this time copying both Serge and the branch's general address.
Within a week, around fifteen emails are scattered across four mailboxes, with the same attachments saved in several places.
"Then Serge goes on leave. Aïcha calls the branch to check on her file."
Nadine, who is covering, finds no trace of the acknowledgment email or the supporting document. She asks Aïcha to resend everything. Yet the decision had in fact been signed on October 9 — it was sitting in Serge's inbox. Aïcha only finds out a week later, when he returns, having lost a week on her project.
Scattered emails
Exchanges from the same file are split across several colleagues, with no link between them.
mailbox: SergeA history impossible to reconstruct
Retracing how a request unfolded means digging through several inboxes, one by one.
mailbox: AnalystDuplicate attachments
The same supporting document is saved in several places — sometimes in different versions.
mailbox: BranchA team left in the dark
When the usual contact is away, no one can brief the client.
mailbox: NadineThe logic flips: every email, every attachment joins the relevant file. No one opens "Serge's inbox" anymore — they open the file, and everything is there.
Oct 5 — Email received
Aïcha's request is linked to the file as soon as it arrives.
→
Oct 5 — Attachment
Supporting-doc.pdf filed once, with no copy.
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Oct 6 — Email sent
The acknowledgment joins the same file.
→
Oct 9 — Decision signed
Filed right alongside every exchange.
When Aïcha calls back while Serge is away, Nadine opens the "2026 Subsidy" file, reads the history in order, and immediately tells her the decision was signed on October 9 — sending it over within the minute. Aïcha has nothing to resend. Her project starts on schedule. Serge's absence no longer changes anything for her.
Linked emails — every message joins the relevant file automatically.
A single history — the whole exchange reads in order, in one place.
Sorted attachments — one copy only, no duplicate or lost version.
An informed team — any colleague can brief the client.
M-Files integrates with the email tools already in use. In a few clicks, an email and its attachments are saved into the right file; some rules can even recognize a file reference and classify automatically.
Once inside M-Files, an email is no longer isolated: it's linked to a client, a request, a decision. The file's access rights apply, confidentiality is respected, and the history becomes easy to consult, hand over, and prove — whether for an audit or an absence.
"And in your organization? If a client called today while their advisor was out, could a colleague tell them in two minutes where their request stands?"
If the answer depends on one particular mailbox, your exchanges deserve to be gathered by file.
We help banks and financial institutions link every email and attachment to the right client file with M-Files — so a colleague's absence never delays a response again.
Galaxy Conseils: innovation in the service of your performance.
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