Move an email sent in previous step

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Good Afternoon

I have a flow that sends an email from content submitted via a form. I would like to move that email into a specific folder once sent.

There is an action Move Email but there's no information available from the action to send the email.

There's no option in the Send an Email (V2) action to save the email to a specific folder.

I can't get back to the classic view when looking at the run and I can't see the message id in the outputs of that action.

Is there any way I can get the id of that message to move it? I will need them for an audit later this year and it will be a real help to have all of it ready to go.

Thanks,

Christine

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,452 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @Amapola188

So you used to be able to look at

outputs('Send_an_email_(V2)')?['body/MessageId']

I am not 100% sure that it works.

But what you could do is

use Get Emails and add a filter that would be like matching your Subject etc and point at the Sent Folder

Once you have that, you should either get back 0 or 1 Email

OR

You can sort them by sent date and get the Top 1 to get the one you just sent.

Now you can use the Move Email to move it.

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Amapola188 296 on at

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Neither solution suggested by @Michael E. Gernaey worked for me.

outputs('Send_an_email_(V2)')?['body/MessageId'] doesn't return any output

And the Get Emails action either gives me an empty output (with filter) or an error (Error loading inputs)

Unfortunately, Microsoft also must have decided to send empty fields from a form submission through differently so between one flow in the morning and another two hours later, the flow broke in another place as well. (Could no longer filter out empty records on empty(), it now comes through a '0' - that is a string, not a number).

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Amapola188 296 on at

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@Michael E. Gernaey

Hi Michael, sorry, I was off sick. - I tried the Get Items based on a view and that pulled the person field through.

It throws up another problem though. I'm filtering by an empty field but it looks like empty fields now no longer come through at all so how can you filter by that?

Not sure at this stage if that's the bigger problem in the picture!

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ronaldwalcott 3,847 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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I believe what was being proposed is that you need a way to uniquely identify the email being sent but at this stage you are unable to use message id.

Create a unique value and either add it in the body of the email or in the subject.

Send the email.

You can now use Get mail to search the sent items within the subject or the body for that unique value and get the message id.

You can now use the message id to move the email to the folder,

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