Flow triggered from canvas app is sending email from current user

[AK06]

Hello All,

I'm facing a bit of a weird issue when calling a flow triggered by Power app.

I have a flow with Power app trigger.

This flow has only one action - send an email V2 office 365 outlook

Email is sent to "user A". I'm User A

Connection used for this action is a service account "user B".

Power app button on select runs the above flow.

Now when any user clicks on the button,  flow sends the email from current user who triggered the power app.

I'm expecting the flow to send email from service account User B.

I'm have troubleshooting this issue but I haven't found a solution yet.

Things I have tried.

1. Change the Trigger from powerapp to say SharePoint. Emails gets send from user B.

2. Tried creating new app or new flow, the issue exists.

3. I have two existing flows which have powerapp Trigger and both of them are able to send email from connection reference that is user B.

4. Any new app or flow fails always sends email from current user and ignores the connection reference.

Interesting bit is when I as user A triggers the  flow then the email is sent from service account user B.

This is happening across different environments.

Any idea on how to further troubleshoot the issue?

[AK06]

Thank you Warren for your help on this one.

I guess my source of truth was wrong. The two existing flows and one app (all part of same solution) still uses connection reference rather than current user context triggering the flows.

These were done atleast 6-8 months in past and there might have been some issue at that time so I'm assuming it is just working as is by chance or due to some bug.

Since this existing apps or flows have not been updated since then I feel they continue to work.

Any new apps or flow do run by current user context.

Even new app calling the existing flows run in current user context.

The issue might be with the existing app.

For now, i believe we can agree on the fact the Flow triggered from a power app runs on current user context and not the connection.

Thank you and really appreciate your help.

[BenjixLeGauloix]

Hi,

I am also experiencing this inconsistency between a flow that is triggered automatically and a flow that is fired directly from Power Apps. From Power Automate, the flow sends an email using the connection reference, from Power Apps, it is the user context that prevails, making the email sent from the user address.

Is there anything i can try to fix it?

Many thanks.

[ErnestoG]

Hi Guys, can you use the advanced property in the SendEmail V2 action, and set the Sender email.

Easy...