Creating but not sending an email

[Hepworthnot]

Hi,

is it possible to write a flow which creates an email but doesn't send it.

Sometimes I want to edit the template emails I create with a flow so I want the template to open ready for editing before I send it?

Thanks

Phil

[ScottShearer]

@Hepworthnot:

There is no "out of the box" action that will allow you to create an email and save it as a draft.

If you can accomplish this, it would involve calling an Ofice 365/Exchange web service via an HTTP action.

If this addresses your issue, please mark you post as Solved.

Scott

[miketondu]

Has this been resolved ?  It would be great to run a flow and have it give me the option to approve the template that's about to be sent and edit it instead of automatically sending it.  Otherwise I have to hard code 16 different types of emails depending on their characteristics 

[Hepworthnot]

Thank you for replying Scott.

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@ScottShearer wrote:

@Hepworthnot:

There is no "out of the box" action that will allow you to create an email and save it as a draft.

If you can accomplish this, it would involve calling an Ofice 365/Exchange web service via an HTTP action.

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Are you saying a solution would be to call an Office 365/Exchange web service via an HTTP action? If so can you point me in the right direction to learn how to do that please?

Thanks Phil

[Hepworthnot]

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@miketondu wrote:

Has this been resolved ?  

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No, not yet.

[ScottShearer]

@Hepworthnot 

Here is a link to the API documentation for Outlook mail.

Here is a link to documentation for the HTTP action

[VictorIvanidze]

Hi @Hepworthnot ,

you can do that  using  MS GRAPH API (premium action  'Invoke an HTTP request'). 

Here is the info how to create a message using GRAPH: 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-messages?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

[rjhale]

Curious if anyone has tried this?  When I run the "Invoke HTTP" action from Flow using one of their examples, I get an odd error message stating:

"code": "UnableToDeserializePostBody",

"message": "were unable to deserialize ",

I get the same thing in Graph Explorer, and this doesn't seem to be a permissions issue.  Any ideas how to fix this?

[VictorIvanidze]

Could  you show your flow?

[rjhale]

[VictorIvanidze]

Sorry I can't reproduce the problem - it works just fine for me.

[rjhale]

Good to know that I'm not completely off-base with this approach.  Curious, when you setup the Invoke HTTP Connector what did you use for the Base Resource URL and the Azure AD Resource URI (Application ID URI)?  

I think I used "https://graph.microsoft.com" for both fields based on what I saw in another post, but I have no idea if that is correct.  

[VictorIvanidze]

Hi @rjhale,

yes, correct. "https://graph.microsoft.com" for both fields. 

[rjhale]

Ok.  I figured it out.  For anyone else who might be attempting this the body has to look like this: 

{
	"Subject": "Test Subject",
	"Body": {
		"contentType": "Text",
		"content": "Testing the body of this message"
	},
	"ToRecipients": [{
		"EmailAddress": {
			"address": "test-whatever@contoso.com"
		}
	}],
}

 @VictorIvanidze Do you happen to know if it's possible to use a similar approach to create draft messages within a shared mailbox? 

[rjhale]

Nevermind.  I think I got it worked out.  You can just treat it like any other user:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/sharedmailboxaddress/messages

[Hepworthnot]

Hi,

thanks for the help above. I can create the draft as above.

I am struggling to add dynamic content though. I get this error message for example:

The input body for trigger 'manual' of type 'Request@ did not match its schema definition. Error details: 'Invalid type. Expected String bu got Null.'

Can you help please?

Thanks

Phil

[VictorIvanidze]

Hi @Hepworthnot, where do you see this error? 

[Hepworthnot]

Hi @VictorIvanidze 

In PowerApps studio. After trying to run the flow using the button in PowerApps I see an error message on the button.

[Hepworthnot]

Did you find anything @VictorIvanidze ?

[VictorIvanidze]

Please show your flow.