Outlook delete notification message

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Posted on by Job1955

Hello all,

I tried to build a simple flow that sends a notification to my email acount A when in my email account B an email arrives in the inbox. The flow has the following steps:

Step 1. triggers this flow when an email arrives in the inbox of my account B.

Step 2. sends an email/notification to the inbox of my account A to notify me that in account B an email arrived. This email/notification holds the body of the original email that triggered the flow.

Step 3. should delete the sent email/notification from the sent items folder from my account B

The steps 1 and 2 function as they should, but in step 3 the original email that arrived in the inbox of account B is deleted instead of the notification that is sent from account B to account A and that remains in the sent items folder. It looks like in step 3 Power Automate grabs the wrong Message ID to delete, but i cannot find any options to make step 3 use the right Message ID.

If any more info is needed let me know.

Thanks for help.

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AnthonyAmador 2,557 Moderator on at

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Hi,

The problem is that ‘Send an email V2’ doesn’t generate any message ID. What you can do is create another flow, use the same trigger for when a new email arrives, and select the ‘Sent items’ folder to delete it from there. You have to filter it, otherwise, it will delete all new sent emails.

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WillPage 2,329 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Instead of using the in-built Send an email action, you can use the "Send an HTTP request" action to create a draft then send it in a two-step process. The action of creating the draft gives you the message ID which you can then use twice, once to send the draft and once to delete the sent item:

Create Draft:

Send draft

Delete sent item

It works:

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Job1955 16 on at

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Thanks for the replies. As a unexperienced Power Automate user the option with 2 separate flows seems to be the easyest way to get things working.

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