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ash7v
Mar 27, 2019Copper Contributor
Send Email to Create a Planner task
Hi, We're new to Flow but would like to know if it's possible to send an email to a certain address that will create this as a task in Planner? We would like to CC the person who we want this assig...
MWalmsley1810
Feb 07, 2024Copper Contributor
Does the email have to send successfully? mbowgren
I ask because the idea of having to send these to an actual address seems like duplication/and or inbox spam, but I'm wondering about a process whereby I can assign tasks to different planners by sending emails to fake email addresses that they are (in my mind) linked to.
As an example, if I have a planner for Big Project One, but don't want to email myself or others every time I assign an email as a task to that planner, could I set up a flow rule that automatically adds the email to the planner if I email the non-existent mailto:email address removed for privacy reasons?
MWalmsley1810
Feb 07, 2024Copper Contributor
It automatically removed the email I typed, but you can get the jist. Basically the project title (so I can remember it) and then a nonsense domain like Fake Email Com in the usual format