Get emails in Office 365 Outlook Connector(Power Automate Cloud flows)

03/11/2024

Japanese version.

This action retrieves information such as the sender and body of an incoming e-mail by specifying search conditions.

How to use

Select the "Office 365 Outlook" connector when adding steps to the flow.

Select "Get emails" from the "Actions" menu.

Set parameters.

Parameters

Specify search conditions.

Folder

Specify the mail folder to retrieve.

To,CC,To or CC, From

Specify the e-mail address to retrieve.

Fetch Only Unread Messages

Specify "No" to include read mail in the retrieve.

Search Query

Specify the subject, sender, and part of the body text to retrieve.

Subject Filter

Specify a part of the subject to retrieve.

Top

Specify the maximum number of items to be retrieved. If not specified, the limit is 10.
The maximum number is 25.

Importance

Specify the level of importance to retrieve.

  • Any
  • Low
  • Normal
  • High

Include Attachments

Specifies whether the contents of the attachment will be used in subsequent steps.

Only with Attachments

Specify "Yes" if you want to target only e-mails with attachments.

Retrieve email information

The results are returned in the form of an array, so they must be repeated in "Apply to each".

For "Select output from previous steps." Specify "value" for dynamic content.

You can also rely on the automatic creation of "Apply to each" if you select a dynamic content such as "body" without "Apply to each".

Dynamic contents

The dynamic content available in the subsequent steps is as follows.

Mainly retrieves information about the target mail for step.

The following is a selection of the most practical.

Message Id

Unique identifier of the mail. Used if a subsequent action will perform some operation on the target mail.

The following is a selection of the most practical.

It is used in the following actions.

From, To, CC, BCC

Their respective email addresses.

Subject, Body

The text information of the email.

Example of saving to file.

Importance

Level of importance of the e-mail.

  • Low
  • Normal
  • High

Attachments Name, Attachments Content

The information of the attached file.

The file is in an Array Requires an "Apply to each" to retrieve it.

Example of saving to file.

Is HTML

Boolean information on whether it is an HTML email.

  • HTML email:true
  • Text email:false

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Links

Offce365 Outlook Connector

Examples of Use

How to save the body of an email to a file.

How to save email attachments.

How to specify a date range for retrieving Outlook mail.