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How to identify if mail has more than 1 attachment, without downloading the files using Retrieve email action

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How to identify if mail has more than 1 attachment, without downloading the files using Retrieve email action.

Because we need to consider only mail having single attachment , if has more than 1 attachment , we need to mark it as exception , but can we do this , any action to achieve without downloading/saving those attachments?.

Kindly mention.

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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For each %RetreivedEmails%
If %CurrentItem.Attachments.Count% > 1

RunSubflow Exception

Next (Loop)

End (IF)

‘Do something (for emails with only 1 attachment)

end (loop)

good luck!
UserCflows_12 48 on at

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Thanks a lot for the response. So we can't identify if file has more attachments , without saving files in a folder? I Actually don't want to save this in any folder. Kindly mention
MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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That’s a good point.

I wonder if you can isolate the emails you need to with mail rules instead. I don’t think you can just do it for “more than one attachment,” but these rules are so specific, I’m sure you could find another way. If you can isolate the emails to their own subfolder, then you can just point the retrieve action at that inbox subfolder.

Check the answer at this link to get you close:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/outlook-mail-rules-based-on-attachment-file-type/008a75c4-40f3-4749-8efa-2e37c571c947

good luck!
werkbook 36 on at

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@MichaelAnnis My experience is that using the .Attachments property of the mail message only works if you have downloaded the attachments when using the action Retrieve Email Messages in the first place. If you don't, the .Attachments property always returns zero.

Do note that in this case, I am retrieving emails from IMAP server, not Outlook.

@UserCflows_12 Perhaps as a workaround, you may wish to download the attachments to a temporary folder first before deleting the attachments when you are done with your processing.

Hope the above helps.
VictorIvanidze 13,083 on at

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Execute a GRAPH request: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/message-list-attachments?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http