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Pasting multiple email addresses in field separated by semicolons does not work

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Posted on by JohnHenderson

I'm helping a colleague build a flow using "when a new email arrives in a shared mailbox (V2)".

We have a long list of emails to put the "From" field (we only want this to run for certain senders), but are not having any luck with adding emails as a comma separated list. We have tried all of the following formats (ignore the links, the forum is auto-adding that, we're pasting in from notepad):

We can paste the values into the flow, however upon saving, leaving, and clicking edit again, the field is blanked out. We're trying to avoid having to type in part of the email, wait for the filter, and click to select the user.

This seems like it should be straightforward... what are we missing? Is there some hotkey or final thing to press after pasting in the semicolon separated list to get it to parse all of these?

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Pstork1 68,717 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Unfortunately, I think this is a UI bug in the current action. I've seen it before when filling out the email fields in other actions. For example when doing a To and sending to an external email address you have to click on an icon above and to the left to switch from the People Picker version of the field to a more generic version. The People Picker version shows the "Suggested People" dropdown. That gets turned off when you click the icon. But in this case there is no icon to click so you are stuck with the People Picker which only accepts internal email addresses. If you use internal emails you will find that it saves. When using any external email addresses it doesn't. Right now I'm not aware of any workaround.

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@JohnHenderson

Can you explain a little bit more about your issue? Are you saying that you want to take action only if the email is from a sender from your list of senders? Are you trying to build a trigger filter?

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JohnHenderson 12 on at

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Thanks. This is unfortunate, but is a great sanity check. Just to clarify, the statement that "If you use internal emails..." only applies if one has the ability to toggle to text, right? We were using all internal emails, pasting into the field, and they were not saved.

I think this is what you mean but just wanted to clarify. Bummer on this glitch!

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JohnHenderson 12 on at

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Yes, this is what we want to do, but the question is purely about "how do I get a bunch of email addresses into the 'From' field without having to manually type them, wait for the suggested matches, and pick the name?"

@Pstork1above hit the nail on the head. Even thought that field says "enter addresses separated by semicolons," it doesn't work.

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TremainSr 13 on at

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Hello,

I'm trying to do the same exact process to verify emails in the gal. Have you ever resolve this issue?

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