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Using the office 365 mail notification flow on Slack, how can I have the alert that's generated appear in my personal IM? I don't want to have it sent to any existing channels and I don't want to create a channel just to get email notifciations. The setup says that I should be able to put in IM channel, which is what personal one should be...

I've tried:

my display name

my account name

the chat id (right click & copy link on my channel)

Do these need a hash prepended (e.g. #myusername)?

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Hi @jhalbert,

Do you want to post your Outlook email notification to your personal IM channel of Slack?

If you want to post your Outlook email notificaiton to your personal IM channel of Slack, you should firstly obtain the channel id of the IM channel. Please consider take a try to obtain the channel id with the following steps:

Generate your legacy token within the following link:

https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens

Select your workspace of your Slack and then click the "Create token" button:

Open the following link and select the "Tester" tab

https://api.slack.com/methods/im.list

Within the "Tester" tab, click "Test Method" button:

Within the response box, copy the id of one IM channel of IM channel arrays:

Create a flow within Microsoft Flow, my flow's configuration as below:
Within Channel Name field of "Post message" action, paste the IM channel id that copied above.

I have made a test on my side and the flow works successfully as below:

Best regards,

Kris

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Thanks, I can confirm this works.

It doesn't appear that the HTML in messages is parsed. I see the markup directly in the body of the message. Do you know if there's any way this can be parsed (either removed or displayed properly)?

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@v-xida-msft I would edit this and make it a little more simple and replacing the entire API step with this simpler and painless step.

Each Slack channel and direct message has their own page/path. The path is in the last value/path of the url "THISVALUE". When you go to the desired channel in your web browser, copy that value and paste it as the Channel Name.
Example:
https://app.slack.com/client/MSFLOWTST/THISVALUE

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