Move Emails older than 5 days from Inbox to another folder (individual maibox)

[Saxenasush]

Hi there, I have a client requirement and have done research into what the requirements are - hence created a flow as well but running into few issues.

Summary of requirement: Move Emails older than 5 days from Inbox to another folder within same mailbox everyday automatically.

MS Flow:

Questions:

- Does this flow look correct? I am doubtful.

- Is there a way to do more than 25 emails at a time at all? Emails older than 5 days could be 40-50 at a time for example.

- Any other way of doing this to achieve the brief?

Thanks all

[manuelstgomes]

Hi @Saxenasush 

The Flow is not what you need. 

The delay is only stopping the Flow and restarting it after five days. 

Here's what you need:

Getting more than 25 emails is impossible since it's the max value in action. But if you run the Flow 2 times, the emails you get in the first time (older than five days) are not there, meaning that you'll get different emails to parse (until 25). You can do the first action manually and then let the Flow sync with the reduced number of elements.

The expression in the comparison (right side ) is the following:

addDays(utcNow(),-5)

So we're checking if the received data was less than five days ago.

Is this what you need?

Cheers
Manuel

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[Saxenasush]

Hi Manuel, Thanks for your help so far.

I have changed the flow now but still have an issue.

Currently the flow only scans the top 25 emails within the inbox from latest to oldest - so if there are 50 emails from today, the flow will not move any older emails as it will only check the top 25.

Is there a search query I can add which can change the order of Getting emails from oldest to newest?

I can see this can be done somehow but struggling to find the search query code or an example for this.

Current flow:

[Saxenasush]

Figured it out for anyone else who needs it:

Adding an expression in the Search Query as per below skips the first 5 days and then starts the Get Emails command 🙂

[manuelstgomes]

Good job!

Cheers
Manuel

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[t0m5k1]

Is there a way to do this for mails older than 120 days from an inbox of over 4000 mails?

Cheers,

Tom

[VictorIvanidze]

You can use native Outlook feature: https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/5238-outlook-move-items-older-than.html

[t0m5k1]

Thanks for the suggestion 😊 I looked in to that already, but unfortunately that only provides the archive functionality to an external PST file. This isn't what I'm looking for. I need to move the mail from one online mailbox folder to another.

[VictorIvanidze]

OK. Did you test the archive mailbox (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-email-storage-with-online-archive-mailboxes-1cae7d...)?

[t0m5k1]

Yep, and it seems that my company, in it's infinite wisdom, has set a 6 month retention on that folder too... In user generated folders I can set that to 7 years... go figure!

[VictorIvanidze]

Understood. Did you try to use the flow provided above?

[t0m5k1]

I think so

Should it look like that?

[t0m5k1]

oops I see a mistake in that one... 😞 let me change that quickly

[t0m5k1]

Looks like it might be working... sort of. It only does 25 at a time, but I can modify the schedule once all the mails are in 🙂 

Thanks for taking the time to help @VictorIvanidze really appreciate it

[VictorIvanidze]

Yes - in the search query 😉

[VictorIvanidze]

To radically speed it up you have to use a GRAPH request instead of Get emails.

If you are running only Outlook for Windows, you can create a script or an add-in.

[t0m5k1]

Sorry for the n00b question, but how would I set up that GRAPH request? 🙂

[VictorIvanidze]

Play a bit with GRAPH explorer. Search here for GRAPH.

[VictorIvanidze]

Just FUY: a flow that using a non-premium GRAPH actions can move 5000 emails during one hour.

If this acceptable for you?

[VictorIvanidze]

Hi @t0m5k1,

have a look at this freeware flow: https://ivasoft.com/archiveemailsflow.shtml