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How to pull an attachment when Attachment is in attached email?

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Posted on by LS-11061622-0

Oh boy, did that sentence confuse me.

We have an email that comes in from a vendor and it includes an email which contains an attachment. Because the attachment is an email and the attached email contains the actual PDF we need, I'm not sure how to build a flow to pull that attachment. Does anyone have some advise on how to create a flow to open the attached email, pull the attachment and save the attached PDF to a SharePoint site? Thank you!

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Sam_Fawzi 879 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hey @LS-11061622-0

To create a flow that extracts a PDF from an email attachment (which is itself an email) and saves it to a SharePoint site, follow these steps:

Trigger: When a New Email Arrives
Use the "When a new email arrives (V3)" trigger from the Outlook connector.
Filter the emails based on the vendor's email address or subject line to ensure you're processing the correct emails.

Get Attachments
Use the "Get attachments" action to retrieve the attachments from the incoming email.
Specify the Message ID from the trigger to get the attachments associated with that email.

Initialize a Variable to Store the Attachment Content
Add an "Initialize variable" action to create a variable (e.g., AttachedEmailContent) of type "String."

Loop Through Attachments
Use an "Apply to each" action to loop through the attachments.

use the "Get attachment content" action to retrieve the content of the attached email.

Store this content in the variable created earlier.

Use the "Create file" action from the SharePoint connector.

Specify the Site Address and Folder Path where you want to save the PDF.

For the File Name, you can use the original PDF file name or create a new one based on your requirements.

For the File Content, use the content from the PDF attachment retrieved in the previous steps.

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LS-11061622-0 7 on at

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@Sam_Fawzi, I apologize if I'm missing something, below is what I currently have set up. When I run the flow with the parameters shown it does not pull the attachment from the attached email, it just pulls the attached email. Where am I going wrong?

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Sam_Fawzi 879 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hey @LS-11061622-0

before this step, add

Get Attachments
Use the "Get attachments" action to retrieve the attachments from the incoming email.
Specify the Message ID from the trigger to get the attachments associated with that email.

Next, create an "Apply to each" loop, as the return value from the "Get attachments" action is an array. Inside this loop, you can access the attachment ID for further processing.

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LS-11061622-0 7 on at

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@Sam_Fawzi, below is the flow I have set up for my regular emails with attachments. Are you saying before the Get Attachment (V2) I need to add a step to get the attachment? I'm a little lost on where anything is different.

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