getting email attachment error

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Hi!
I have this flow:

There was a compose for debugging but i removed. I cant get any attachment. Run result:

The condition passed, the email has attachment. The get attachment has this parameters:

I tried all begining with the attachment. None of them works. Please help what am I missing?

My goal is if an email arrives with attachments, conditions are met, write a new email with new email body, using the original email attachment. The sending email part:

If you need any more information please let me know. I also tried at least 5 templates if i could modify them, and check the forums, saw same topic, but not the solutions.

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VitoMinheere 4 on at

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I am not sure if you need the "Get Attachement" step in there. I found another answer that explained how you could use it as it will need a variable to store the attachement. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/powerappflow/how-to-get-get-attachment-into-power-automate/1854137

I run a flow where I send an attachment to oneDrive and that runs without the "Get Attachement" and also uses the contentBytes to send the attachement as you did in "Send an email".

Perhaps you can try it without that step inbetween

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petersonal 10 on at

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Hello!
Thank you for trying to help me. Maybee I am unexperienced or unlucky, but this is not helping. I read the post. I edited the flow, now this look like this:

The running result saying the attachment name has no value:

The attachment name is a String type. The value is set inside the apply to each. It is a dynamic content from the when email arrives, value is Attachments name.

The attachment data fist was object, second is now an array type, but I am failing with the name already...

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Micky 365 Moderator on at

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Hello,

You just need an array for your attachments. Like the image below.

Then use that attachment array variable in the send an email action

Make sure the send an email action is outside the Apply to each action.

Happy Power Automating :)

Regards,

Micky

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petersonal 10 on at

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Hey Micky,

Thank you for triying to help. After a lot of tires and experimenting I realized, the flow build as you suggested seems to be working, jut alittle bit not every time. Bigger picture: I am triying to use this flow to process the user submission mails. You know where user reporting phishing mails, and the admin mailbox receives an attachment of a reported mail to examine.

So if i sending a mail with for example a picture, or a pdf, the flow works fine. But when I attached a .msg, or the orignal report mail has .eml extension attachment, it fails to grab it.

This is my current flow (as Mickey suggested):

and when giving a flow a .eml or .msg attachment the for each part is empty:

Any idea why is this happening? Is the special type of attachment?

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Micky 365 Moderator on at

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Hello @petersonal,

Power Automate don't treat .msg and .eml file as an attachment that's why it returned empty.

Here a workaround for that, but it will send the whole email as an attachment including the .eml and .msg

The Attachments Name is the Subject from When anew email arrives(v3) followed by .eml

The Attachment Content field value is from Export email (v2)

Happy Power Automating

Regards,

Micky

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petersonal 10 on at

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Hi @Mickey!

Thank you for your help now i can send the email with attachments. However, a new problem arised. Our system doest like the attachment names, because it has many special characters. Is there a way to rename the attachment? I did not see any actions in outlook to do this.

Thank you

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Micky 365 Moderator on at

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Hello Peter,

You can put any text in the attachment name, just don't forget the .eml extension.

For example

Happy Power Automating :)

Regards,

Micky

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