Flow send a mail and save it as EML in sharepoint

[Theflow]

Hi,

I would like to know if it is possible to make this flow :

1. from a selected item in sharepoint

2. send an email

3. save the email that i have sent, in attachment to the selected item in sharepoint as .EML

I have got some trouble with the third part of my request, and i am not sure its possible?

Thanks for your help.

KR

[v-duann-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Theflow 

Thank you for posting.

According to your description, you would like to save email to SharePoint list as EML attachment. If any misunderstanding, please kindly let me know.

If that’s the case, we can configure flow as below:

Flow in detail (Please pay attention to the painted part😞

Once tested, I’m able to attach eml file to SharePoint list item.

Here are some similar threads for your reference:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Saving-email-attachments-msg-with-flow/td-p/26069...

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/outlook-connector-more/ 

Hope the content above may help you.

Best regards,

Anna

[Theflow]

Hey Anna, 

The flow seems to work but not always. It does happen that the attachement is an other mail. I guess he gets the first mail of my "sent mails" and sometimes takes an older mail before the new one is send.

I might use a timer to handle this problem, but it's not 100% guarantee. Any way to solve that problem?

Thanks,

KD

[v-duann-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Theflow 

Thank you for update.

I deeply understand your concern. The most accurate method is using 'when a new email arrives' in 'sent items'.

However, you would like to manually start the flow using 'for a selected item', then that's cause the conflict. 

Even though you set up a timer, it helps in most of scenarios. However, you can't confirm how long it will take to send an email out especially for a large message. The email will keep in draft until server read the whole thing and sent it out.

For example, we set up a 5-mins delay after 'send an email'. It may cause problem as well if we send a secondary email within this 5 mins. We can't overcome this problem at current stage although we add a timer. When we setup 1min delay instead. That may cause problem too if email size is large and takes more than 1min to send out, the flow will still read the old email. So it's impossible to control everything as it's integrated with outlook and relies on network situation. Many factors may affect the result.

So to achieve your requirement, we have two options here.

1.Start flow using 'when a new email arrives' in 'sent items'.

2.Select the top 1 message in send items

Sorry for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

Thanks

Anna