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Posted on by kinobijei

I would like to have the possibility to sort emails inside an inbox or any other folder or subfolder inside outlook.

When using the "Get email (V3)" I'm just able to retrieve the top message (that is the newest one).

But I need to get the oldest one.

Something like, using the SQL syntax, "order by asc".

My scope is to identify the oldest message in the box, that is the message with the oldest receivedDateTime field.

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RobElliott 10,514 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Why do you want to use a flow for this when you can just sort your inbox (or any other folder) by oldest on top?

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Hello, this is just one step on the flow. Scope of the whole flow is to archive email existing in a shared mailbox (a lot of mails already in it), extracting metadata end store them into a sharepoint list. i want do to do it by retrieving one mail at a time, starting from the oldest

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Once the oldest email has been archived i can delete it from the inbox, freeing space and continue with the new oldest one.
This is the simplest method that came into my mind to archive email, freeing the shared mailbox, without the risk to create duplicates in the sharepoint list. I could do it also starting from the newest one..... but i would prefer starting from the oldest one.

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Hi, Were you able to find a solution to this? Thanks

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