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Posted on by Michal Z.

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Hi,

I am using the When a new email arrives in a shared mailbox action and want to filter out emails with the specific keyword in the subject.

Instead of using the condition I tried Subject filter field but whatever I put there the action will work for any email subject.

If you found it working for you, please share how to use it.

If you found it not working - question to the MS Flow team - please remove it or make it work and document it with an example so we know how it works.

/Mike

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v-yamao-msft on at

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Hi Michal,

We can use Subject Filter to search for the presence of specific words in the subject of an email. Your flow then runs actions based on the results of your search.

In the Subject Filter box, enter the text that your flow uses to filter incoming emails.

This documentation about Trigger a flow based on email properties could be a reference for you, please check it at here:
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/email-triggers/

Best regards,
Mabel Mao

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Michal Z. 147 on at

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Thank you. It works now. I don't know why it was not working before.

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Russbellon 21 on at

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How do you specify multiple values? Like if i want to run the next step if the subject contains value1 OR Value2 OR Value 3, but NOT value 4.

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Gaolai 46 on at

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I have the same question. Any answers?

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Gaolai 46 on at

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You can use condition, for example, add a condition like
@or(contains(triggerBody()?['Subject'], 'A'),contains(triggerBody()?['Subject'], 'B'),contains(triggerBody()?['Subject'], 'C'))

Please refer to this link, it answers your question, mine too
https://marckean.com/2017/03/07/microsoft-flow-logic-app-conditions/

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Subject filter is not acception whitespace. Eg- "Re: This is a new message." . I want to add this whole string in Subject Filter. But it is not working.

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Hey daska - try using the string() expression, e.g. string('Re: This is a new message.')

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MAK22 3 on at

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Thanks, that works perfectly!

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Peter1234 on at

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Is it possible to put a regular expression in the mail filter?
If it's not, this is really an oversight... for example I want to get only those emails that contain an ID Code in a specific format. How would I go about that?
Say i would want to find all mails with following 999-XXX-999... (examples 123-ABC-789, 546-DEF-547) as far as i know I have two options now:
* using javascript (requiring an integration account)
* creating a azure function

Seems to me this is a waste of time and making logic apps more complex then they need to be.
Really hoping someone tells me i can just enter a regular expression in the filter...

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JamesMartin001 17 on at

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I have the same problem, which I am struggling to solve.

Our customers use a Reference number in this format:

HR123456-10 (HR&6 digit number&-&2 digit number below 100)
Some earlier customers have a 5 digit number. And most customers only have a version number after the dash that goes to under 10. Some customers go more than 10 versions but these are very few.

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