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Outlook does not always retrieve all wanted emails

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We are creating a flow which launches outlook, finds emails, downloads a pdf from those emails, scrapes to find an email address, and then sends an email to that address. When we are in "editing" mode this flow runs successfully, finding all wanted email addresses and sending emails. However, after exiting "editing" mode, this flow only sometimes gets all the emails. Sometimes it sends all necessary emails and sometimes it misses a couple, but in editing mode it always sends the correct number of emails. This implies the keywords and the flow itself work properly.

 

I am not sure why this issue occurs only sometimes, any suggestions?

 

 

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  • VJR Profile Picture
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    Hi @andrewisaac 

    Perhaps some kind of logging could help determine if there is a pattern happening.

     

    After the "Retrieve emails" action write the RetrievedEmails Datatable to a .txt file.

    When you are not in Edit mode, run the flow and check the .txt file to see what is coming out of the Retrieve Emails action.

    Also if you are having any criteria to fetch these emails like "From contains", "To contains", "Subject contains", then you can write them as well to the .txt file.

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