Catch emails where Subject CONTAINS a phrase

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I understand that "When a new mail arrives V3" Subject Filter only filters an EXACT phrase.

So to get only emails with certain phrase as PART of subject line I need somehow to apply contains() condition.

But how do I do it? Where?

Also, how do I transfer the "caught" emails to another folder?

Thank you!

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tom_riha 10,187 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello @michaelshparber ,
the 'Subject Filter' works as contains(), it doesn't look for exact phrase. Just put the string you want to look for directly in the filter as the actions asks.
For moving emails there's an action 'Move email'.

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Sounds like filtering on the subject is not really what you want if you want to catch emails with certain phrases in the subject. Maybe a condition like this?

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N3cola 3 on at

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Hi,
picking up from the last feedback, I'd like to ask for your input as I am trying to do the same thing with the exception that I add new row in the condition with the intent to give an additional subject string as alternative to the first.
My objective is to move multiple emails with various subject strings, hence logically, by adding new rows with the same structure but every time with a different string content it should do the trick.
It just does not work, no matter if I opt for 'And' or 'Or'.
Any idea?
Thanks a lot.

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Make sure you choose the Or at the top where I have shown a box, or both conditions will need to be met.

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eliotcole 4,390 Moderator on at

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I know that this is an old one, but the best way to simply handle this would be to only trigger if the subject contains a certain phrase is to use a trigger condition.

@contains(triggerBody()?['subject'], 'your lovely phrase')

That is of course only viable if the phrase is known.

But it also gives you the option of wrapping toLower() around both parts just in case of oddities.

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