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Posted on by kaj_t

I'm trying to create a flow to weed out messages in outlook.com junk email folder. The trigger I would like to use is the "From" (sender) email header field. When I look at the From header in the actual email headers it looks for example like this:

From: Fix Your Metabolism <auLoTKUbdvuy@tzathm.com>

However the flow dynamic content extracts only the email address part "auLoTKUbdvuy@tzathm.com"

In junk mail the address is not useful and also the body is not very reliable. However in this case the word "Metabolism" would be a good filter.

Any ideas how I can get the "non address" part of the from header

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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Hi @kaj_t. I don't think it's a good idea. What a flow can do better than a rule created in e-mail client?

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kaj_t 16 on at

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I'm trying to make this server based. It looks like on outlook.com the rules created with the web interface don't apply to messages that go directly to the junk mail folder based on outllok.com internal filtering.

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Rackmani 29 on at

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I have exactly the same question. So if anyone has the answer would be grateful.

Kaj is write in Outlook rules are not applied before the in built junk filter

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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Hi @Rackmani I believe a possible solution is creating a flow that uses the MS GRAPH interface and the premium connector "Invoke a HTTP request".

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Rackmani 29 on at

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That sounds intersting Victor - could you explain further please how you do this.

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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Have a look at MoveToJunk flow.

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kaj_t 16 on at

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Thanks for you input Victor. In my case I have to deal with outlook.com connector which for some reason does not get the display name of the sender.

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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Hi @kaj_t, sorry I know almost nothing about Outlook.com.
If I create a free account in Outlook.com and log in to https://outlook.live.com/, can I create a flow?

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Rackmani 29 on at

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I was looking to delete from junk as opposed to move to junk. Thx

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kaj_t 16 on at

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I have a paid account so I'm not 100% sure but I think you can. The only difference between paid and free is that paid does not have advertisement.

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