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Saving .eml attachments to Sharepoint

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Posted on 29 Jun 2021 13:56:09 by 8

Hi,

I have a flow working that grabs the attachments from an incoming email and saves them to sharepoint.

I would like to be able to also save any outlook items that are also attached to the email. 

I've read various posts and one from 2018 - Save attachments of type "outlook item" to OneDriv... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com) - states "Currently, Flow does not support obtaining the "Outlook item" contained in the email. Only Attached Files included in the email can be obtained."

 

Has this functionality been added yet?

If not is there any way at all to grab the .eml attachment and save it to sharepoint/onedrive/teams.

 

Many thanks

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  • golawst Profile Picture
    4 on 23 Feb 2023 at 07:27:34
    Re: Saving .eml attachments to Sharepoint

    Hello,

    the workaround I found:

    Use the export email action

    Save it as an EML file on OneDrive using the Create file action

    Use PAD/VBA to open the EML file and save its attachment(Outlook item) as a file

  • racheliston Profile Picture
    2 on 17 Oct 2022 at 15:37:56
    Re: Saving .eml attachments to Sharepoint

    @smiffy Were you able to get this working given the work around suggestion? I am having the same problem. Thanks!

  • SS-20081429-0 Profile Picture
    8 on 30 Jun 2021 at 09:13:38
    Re: Saving .eml attachments to Sharepoint

    Thank you very much - I will try it and see how I get on.

  • Gopala_Krishna Profile Picture
    1,491 on 30 Jun 2021 at 03:34:43
    Re: Saving .eml attachments to Sharepoint

    @smiffy 

    If the .eml has been added as a file attachment then it would be retrieved directly by power automate triggers. In power automate the attachments are categorized into two types file and item attachments all the file attachments (ex: .txt,.zip,.png,.pdf etc) would be retrieved by the power automate trigger but the item attachments cannot be retrieved by the trigger and this is a known limitation.

     

    To over come this scenario please follow the steps shared below.

     

    More information can be found at - Office 365 Outlook - Connectors | Microsoft Docs

     

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