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Get plain text from email files (eml converter/parser)

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Posted on by KatiaL

Hello All,

I am looking for a way to convert or parse my eml-files (Outlook email format) to plain-text content. I see how easy we can do that by means of many online converters and other file tools, but I cannot find any action or connector available for Power Automate step.

Any ideas and suggestions are really appreciated!

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Jcook 7,781 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello @AlexVoy

This blog is the closest thing I could find. It uses a 3rd party connector. Please check with your organization. You wouldn’t want DLP to bite you.

https://clavinfernandes.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/archive-incoming-emails-in-pdf-format-using-microsoft-flow/

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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Hi @AlexVoy,

as far as I know eml is a plain text format. What exactly do you want to achieve?

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KatiaL 10 on at

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Yes, it is in text format, but it contains metadata as well as some parts of it are encoded.
For example, this is how the source eml-file looks like

and this is what I want to get as parsed plain text.

In other words, I need a tool which lets to work with EML data similar to JSON, for example.

Thank you for helping me!

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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I'm afraid there is no ready to use tool that can do what you want.
You can write such thing yourself though using Power Automate string and conversion functions.

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KatiaL 10 on at

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Can you give me a simplest example?

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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I doubt that such example exists. If you think the task is too hard for you then hire someone.

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Max44 223 on at

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How to parse a EML document using GroupDocs. Parser App
Select your EML document for parsing text and click Parse Now button.
For parsing images from your EML document click on Download Images button.
Once your EML document is parsed click on Download Now button.

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KatiaL 10 on at

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Yes, I love this online parser but I do not see how I can use it inside of a flow so that it would go without manual interaction.

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JwGriesbaum 10 on at

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You can use base64tostring on the $content and it will render as plain text

Example:

base64ToString(outputs('Get_file_content_using_path')?['body']?['$content'])

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Ericcjones 5 on at

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Thank you for sharing. This simply perfect and perfectly simple bit of code made a world of difference in a problem that threatened to knock a company-wide initiative off the rails!

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