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Building an Outlook.com Spam FIlter

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Hello Power Automate Community,

 

I'm trying to build an automation to automatically delete phishing and spam emails from my outlook.com junk mail folder, I get about 10+ a day and its just a pain to delete them all and block etc. So I tried to create an event that triggers whenever I receive a new email to my junk folder. It then looks at the 'From' and if 'it contains' 'McAfee' for example it should automatically delete the email. However, It keeps failing.

 

I tried changing the trigger to an hourly timer that basically get the top 20 emails from my junk mail and it still doesn't work. 

 

This is the error I keep getting:

 

Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition' at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language function 'contains' expects its first argument 'collection' to be a dictionary (object), an array or a string. The provided value is of type 'Null'.'.

 

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My power automate knowledge is pretty basic, I'm not 100% sure I'm inputting the search string correctly? I'd also like to know if its possible to input a blank string cos I get emails with no sender address and id like to block those as well. Anyway I've run out of ideas any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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  • BCBuizer Profile Picture
    22,577 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @t1m2k2

     

    I tested a similar setup and don't have any issues. The only difference is that I'm using Get emails (V3). Perhaps changing that will fix your issue.

     

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  • t1m2k2 Profile Picture
    6 on at

    I'll certainly give it a go! Cheers! I Cant seem to see V3 are you a premium user?

     

    Ahh that's an outlook 365 rule, I'm trying outlook.com... Starting to wonder if its because I'm not a power automate or outlook.com premium account...

  • BCBuizer Profile Picture
    22,577 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @t1m2k2 ,

     

    I'm using an E5 license, but nothing premium. Unfortunately the Outlook.com connector is blocked, so I can't test that.

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