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Hi All,

I would like to receive a notification when an certain e-mail is not received. So every day I need to receive an email, but I need to take an action when I received nothing before a certain time. Is this also possible to create with Power Automate?

In all templates, the flow will be triggered only when a new email arrives. I'm looking for the other way around.

Thanks!

R_P

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Build a recurrence flow that lists all the emails within the last 24 hours that match the email criteria you are looking for. If the array returned is of length() 0 then you didn't get the email. You can then do the notification.

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for the quick reply!
Can you help with how to implement this?

I understand the recurrence flow, but not how lists all the emails and then match the email criteria.
Do I need to use the "Get emails (V3)" and/or the "Condition"?

Thanks!

R_P

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It would be a combination of Get Emails using a Search Query. This would be the query for Today's emails

received:@{formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd')}

Followed by a Filter Array to filter out emails that don't match the specific criteria for the email you are searching for. For example is the email from a particular person.

Finally a condition to check whether the filter array returned any records. If length() of the filtered array body is 0 then you didn't get the email.

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Hi,

Can you please help me to complete the solution? I've implemented your steps, but I'm still getting an error message. Hopefully you can help.

The error I receive:

My implemented flow:

I think it is related to the Condition-part. Because I have "Length()" and you filled in "Length(...)". Should I fill something in the Length-function:

Or maybe the Filter array part. What should you fill in "From". I now did it like this, because I want to filter on a specific subject.
Thanks a lot!

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You want to measure the length of the filtered array. The value from the filtered array should be the parameter inside the length() function.

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for your reply again. Unfortunately I can't get it to work yet.
I always get the output that I received the email, even when I did not receive it.

I filled in the following Filter Array and Condition.

The output of my flow:

It looks like the Values are never actually filled. Hopefully, you can still help!

Thanks a lot!

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