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Getting metadata from a saved file *.msg

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Hello community.

I am looking for an advice here, because I don't know if this is possible?

 

I save some emails from outlook to my sharepoint library. Basdically the process is: in my outlook I select the email, then SAVE AS, pick the location and save as "outlook message format - unicode".

 

So the email is saved in *.msg format and the file name is the  subject of the email. So far so good and I have no problems with that.

 

I would like to save a copy of the title in another column because my power apps is complaining for delegation.

 

I have tried "Title" and "Name" and both has delegation issues  {"Name"}.

 

Thanks in advance for any response.

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  • bennettdan Profile Picture
    8 on at

    Any luck? This is doing my head in.

  • Sajarac Profile Picture
    3,271 on at

    Unfortunately no. I have abandoned that project since no response.

     

    Sorry 😞  

  • VictorIvanidze Profile Picture
    13,073 on at

    Hi @bennettdan,

    what exactly you are trying to achieve? 

  • bennettdan Profile Picture
    8 on at

    @sajarac I've gotten close using various Sharepoint get file information connectors. But I can't find a way to get the email body into a connection that is in a JSON format so I can parse the required data.

     

    I have had limited success with using the Get emails (v3) connector and taking them direct from Outlook with a manual trigger. This has a limitation of 25 max emails and sometimes just doesn't run even though it reports a success. If I could make this work and for volumes of 100+emails at a time I would just copy all the .msg files back to Outlook and then run the automation.

     

    Why saving or drag and drop .msg / .eml files direct from Outlook 365 to Sharepoint with all the correct metadata isn't an OOB solution baffles me.

  • bennettdan Profile Picture
    8 on at

    Hi @VictorIvanidzeI'm trying to save emails to a sharepoint library and rename the files with the subject and received time so they don't overwrite reply emails that get saved at a later date. I then want to add the ReceivedDateTime to a column and Sender information to another so that the Library is more searchable later. 

     

    Dan

  • VictorIvanidze Profile Picture
    13,073 on at

    Did you try to use a GRAPH request to get emails as JSON objects?

  • bennettdan Profile Picture
    8 on at

    @VictorIvanidze, not yet but I have just been looking at the how this could be done. Are there any licensing limitations to doing so?

     

    This is one of the versions I have been trying to build.

  • stw1 Profile Picture
    4 on at
    I also need a solution for this issue ;(

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