Difference between "Send an email notification (V3)" and "Send an email (V2)"

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Hi,

I am researching the differences between the

"Send an email notification (V3)" Action which comes with the Mail Connection

and the

"Send an email (V2)" Action which comes with the Office 365 Outlook Connection.

I am fully aware that you need to have a license and online mailbox in order to use the Office 365 Outlook connection. That being said, If a user has the necessary elements to use either action, why might you choose one over the other?

Thank you for your assistance

Matt

Reference Links

Mail connector Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/sendmail/

Office 365 Outlook Connector Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/office365/

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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The Send an email notification (v3) will send the email from Microsoft PowerApps and Flow. It can only send 100 emails every 24 hours.

The Send an email (v2) will send the email from you as the creator of the flow. It can send 900 emails every 60 seconds.

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ScottShearer 25,270 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@schuess3

The primary reason that I might choose to use the Send an Email notification action is that it shows as being from (the sender) "Microsoft Power Apps and Flow". The Send an Email action shows as being from the individual whose credentials were used on the send an email connector - usually the Flow author.

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v-litu-msft on at

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Hi @schuess3,

"Send an email notification (V3)" could add only one attachment into the email, but "Send an email (V2)" could add multiple attachments:

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Community Power Pla... on at

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I can see from Microsoft's documentation:

The Send an email notification (v3) will send the email from Microsoft PowerApps and Flow. It can only send 100 emails every 24 hours.

Can anyone tell me in what exact context? Is this is per flow, per user or per tenant?

Thanks,
Paul

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harikiran 9 on at

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Hello.

I am using "Send an email notification (V3) in my flow and wanted to remove below hard coded link from email how can this be done.
Question 1
"If you want to unsubscribe from these emails, please use this form." Is there any way we can remove this link,
I have no were mentioned in my email content by still its taken in buildin content.

Question 2
Can we increase the limit from 100 to 200 notification email ?

Your reply on this content will be of great helpful and appreciated.

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Harry

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when we use "Send an email (V2)" then send email from Connections email id receiver got email from connect name i don't want to be see Connections name i want to be set any custom name or any DL name instead of Connections name how we do that?

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ScottShearer 25,270 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@Anonymous

If you want to dynamically change the connection you won't be able to do that.

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Is it any work around when user receive email From:- xyz@gg.com To: User Email ID instead of xyz can we hide this email id from user and put another email id? like: noreplypower@onmicrosoft.com OR Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate microsoft@powerapps.com like that?

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ScottShearer 25,270 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@Anonymous

If you can deal with the limitations of Send an email notification, then that is your answer.

Your option to create a shared mailbox is likely your best choice. You can name the shared mailbox almost anything you want.

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@ScottShearer - This is actually frustrating. Microsoft is actually recommending Power Automate as Successor to SharePoint Designer. Such basic things are missing in the products. Shared Mailbox may not be a good choice from security standpoint within certain organizations and policies might restrict them. Really surprised which such a low email threshold on Send email notification v3. Product team should think from business standpoint. Have you come across any other solution?

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