IsRead Status changes

[Abed_Hamed]

Hi Forum Memebers,

As topic, I am trying to create a cloud trigger every 1 minutes to check if i recieved an email and didnt got marked read after 20 seconds of the recieving time.

My issue is that if after the delay time I received an email it will trigger the flow and assume that its sitting there not marked as read, Is there a way to actually check if the status of isRead changes to not equal to true or false. Still newbie here trying to learn.

Thank you all. 

[Nived_Nambiar]

Hi @Abed_Hamed 

Instead of using scheduled trigger - why don't you try with when email arrives trigger this will trigger the flow when email arrives in mailbox. Based on plan you are using power automate - the trigger will check up the mailbox periodically - for premium plan it is 1 minute -> so flow will checks whether new mail received for every minute and then using the is Read dynamic content you can check whether the email has been read or not.

Hope it helps !

Let me know if you need any help 🙂

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[Abed_Hamed]

Hi Nived,

Thanks for the reply, This soultion would work if I my inbox was not recieiving like up to 5 emails in lesss than 2 minutes thats why I went with the recureence to get all the emails that recieved in that period.

Not sure how to do it really 

[Nived_Nambiar]

Hi @Abed_Hamed 

Ok but i did not get what you meant by this ?

My issue is that if after the delay time I received an email it will trigger the flow and assume that its sitting there not marked as read - how would the flow be triggered ?

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[Abed_Hamed]

Hi Nived,

So basically, A mailbox that is received 4 to 5 emails in a minutes 

A recurrence every 2 or 3 minutes will exceute and get all the emails that are unread, then a delay for 30 seconds well execute to give our application to read all the emails that got fetched, and if it doesn't send me an alert.

The goal of it is to keep monitoring the mailbox if it there is any email that didn't got read by the application and inform us.

[Nived_Nambiar]

Hi @Abed_Hamed 

so the flow should be capturing the list of unread emails every 1 or 2 minutes after a specific delay and inform you via email the numbers of emails that are unread , am i right ?

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[Abed_Hamed]

Hi Nived,

Yes correct

[Nived_Nambiar · Accepted solution]

Ok @Abed_Hamed 

In that case -> could you design the flow like below

1. Create a recuurance flow which runs every 5 minutes

2. Get all emails from specific folder using get emails 

3. Now check whether there is any output from get emails using length function, if there are no unread emails then fine  > else notify the user via email or so.

I would say put the recurrance time bit longer as i think once you got the notification , user will check the emails so that it is read 

Because putting recurrance time of 1 minutes may results i multiple emails in short interval of time

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[Abed_Hamed]

Hi @Nived,

Thank you so much for your help, it worked!!!!