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Hi, I want to build a flow to forward all sent emails to another email address (gmail) so that I can have a backup. Here are the triggers that I used:

When a new email arrives (V3)

Folder - Sent items

Forward an email (V2)

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The problem is after I sent an email, it keeps forwarding that email to my gmail again and again and it won't stop. I ended up receiving 100+ emails in a min. I can't find a trigger that can stop the process.

Any solution please? Thank you.

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yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Anonymous

The flow that you have currently is whenever a new email arrives in your sent mail box, you are forwarding it to your gmail. Note that, this will add an email (the forwarded one) to your sent mailbox and trigger the flow again and thereby creates a never ending loop.

To address this, what you can do is, add a trigger condition to flow saying not to trigger when the email is sent To your gmail. You can follow this blog here to setup the trigger condition.

https://www.bythedevs.com/post/working-with-trigger-conditions-in-ms-flow

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@yashag2255 Thanks for your response.

My question is I know nothing about coding. It seems like I need to first identify some relevant fields in the flow run history for this expression:
@not(equals(last(split(triggerBody()?['From'],'@')),'testdomain.onmicrosoft.com'))
I tried to look into the code of the trigger but had no clue what I had to do ... could you please guide me through this process?

Thank a lot!

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yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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hey @Anonymous

Can you try this:

@not(equals(triggerBody()?['To'],'test@gmail.com'))

Replace that email with your gmail.

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Hi @Anonymous ,

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@yashag2255 Thank you for helping me out, but the email loop is still there after using the expression.

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mmiller108 2 on at

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@Anonymous I know this is an old thread, but here's the solution I found. (in case anyone who stumbles on this thread is interested)

This should work as the trigger condition to prevent the infinite loop per the OP problem, where 'forwardingAddress@email.com' is the email address you are forwarding to.
@not(equals(triggerBody()?['toRecipients'],'forwardingAddress@email.com'))

This is also equivalent:
@not(equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/toRecipients'],'forwardingAddress@email.com'))

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