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Flow to extract attachments from Inbox
- No - the 'apply to each' required are automatically added by Flow when it detects that you are using an output that is an array - e.g. if you use an output from 'get emails' (rather than get email) - the action is automatically put inside a 'apply to each'.
Basically, you Flow would need to look almost identical to mine, in terms of blocks, at least.
Regarding the limit on number of emails it will get - I'm not sure, but it would be easy to test.
If you do find there is a limit, you may need to move batches of emails into a folder, and run the Flow multiple times.
Thanks again Rob
I tried to get emails but it still seams to do the same thing. When I manually trigger (I guess you mean just press Test) it only ever seams to look at 1 email in the folder not all of the,
This is my setup...any other suggestions would be appreciated
I'm not using a shared mailbox, I'm testing with my user mailbox, so the trigger I have is 'when an email is received' - but using the action as per below, if I move an unread email or a read email from another folder into the 'Processed' folder - the flow triggers and saves out the attachment every time:
so in theory that would work if you created a new folder and had that flow trigger on the new folder, then moved emails from another folder into the new folder.
I'll give it a go using a shared mailbox - BRB.
Thanks Rob Ellis, I guess the main issue we are having is that it doesn't seam to trigger if more than 1 email is moved - ie if we move or copy 3, 4 or 5 emails it only every processes the "newest" one of those mails.
and we can't seam to get it to look at a existing mailbox that has the 2000 attachments in there and process more than 1 of those
Thanks Rob Ellis
I guess the main issue is that it needs to trigger if we copy or move more than 1 email at a time in there and it doesn't seam to do that. It only every saves the attachment of the latest email, So if you copy day 5 mails into the folder only mail 1 will have its attachment saved
The folder we want to process the attachment in has 2000 emails, and we can't seam to get it to analyse this folder and extract from there
Pn1995 I can see that issue, agreed - it only triggers on the most recent email - including if using an Outlook rule to move the emails into the folder.
Using a manually triggered flow like this will do what you need
(Note I have mine set to only get unread emails, and limit to 10 - so you will need to increase that):
Thanks again Rob Ellis
So just to confirm in order for it to "process" more than 1 email you are suggesting that I need to created a "Apply to each" action - so if I want to process 10 emails create 10 "Apply to each"
Also in the "Get Email" "Top" field were you have 10, isn't there a limit of 25 to that?
