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Is there a way to look at the attachments on an email message (O365) then for each attachment send a separate email, but to the same address?

e.g.

1. Email comes into inbox with picture1.jpg and picture2.jpg.

2. Picture1.jpg is attached to a new message and sent to abc@123.com

3. Picture2.jpg is attached to a different new message and sent to abc@123.com

I've got my flow to the point where it will send two separate emails, but both emails have both attachments on.

Sure I'm missing either a loop or for each process somewhere.

Thanks

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Hi @RolandDeschain,
Do you want to send the attachments separately from an email?
I did some test according to your requirements.

Best Regards,
Kyrie

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RolandDeschain 19 on at

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Hi Kyrie,

Thanks for this.
If you think of it as a simple splitting of the original email, into several emails based on however many attachments there are. I don't need to save the files anywhere, simply split the attachments onto separate emails and send them onwards to another destination.

When I try to re-create your steps, after "When a new email arrives" I'm adding the step in to "Get Attachment" and it asks for a Message Id and Attachement Id [sic]. I enter the dynamic value "Message ID" into the Message Id field and it creates an "Apply to each" with "value" in a field "Select an output from previous steps".
Under Attachement Id [sic] I enter the dynamic content "Attachments Attachment Id" and in doing so I seem to get a nested "Apply to each 2".
Ultimately once I add the other steps in it fails.
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong at this stage?

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Hi @RolandDeschain,
Let's do it step by step.
1. Add the trigger 'when a new email arrives'.
2. Add an 'apple to each' action and set the input as attachments.
3. Add 'get attachment' action.
Best Regards,
Kyrie

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Hi Kyrie,

At step two, the instant I click the dynamic content "Attachments" (see below)

It jumps to show this:

If I click that nested "Apply to each" I see this:

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RolandDeschain 19 on at

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I think I got myself wrapped up in knots on this as I've tried again and although I'm still seeing the process nested, it is working as I wanted:

Many thanks for your help and patience!

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