Moving email from Mailbox to SharePoint folder

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I'm new to Power Automate and still learning.

I have been trying to setup a workflow to move email from a user mailbox to a folder in SharePoint. There are subfolders that also need to be moved with the email as well. for some reason the first 3 steps work then the rest of the steps get skipped.

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Hi, welcome to Power Automate! Let me help you troubleshoot why your steps after step 3 are being skipped.

The most common cause: a condition evaluating to false

In Power Automate, if you have a Condition action and the condition evaluates to false, the "false" branch is skipped entirely — those steps simply don't run, and the run history shows them as "Skipped." This isn't an error; it's the flow working as designed.

How to diagnose

Open the failed/skipped run in Power Automate's Run History.

Click on the action that's skipping — skipped actions are shown in grey.

Look at the action immediately before the skip — check its inputs/outputs to understand why the flow branched away.

Typical issues when saving emails + attachments to SharePoint

Email has no attachments — if you use a condition like Has Attachments is equal to true and there are none, subsequent steps are skipped.

Missing Apply to each loop — attachments must be iterated using an Apply to each loop; missing this means only the first (or no) attachment is processed.

Subfolder path doesn't exist — when using Create file in SharePoint, the folder path must already exist; Power Automate won't create missing folders automatically.

Recommended flow structure

Per Use SharePoint and Power Automate to build workflows – Microsoft Learn:

Trigger: When a new email arrives (Office 365 Outlook)

Condition: Check Has Attachments is true

Apply to each over Attachments

Get attachment content (Outlook action)

Create file (SharePoint action) — specify the target folder path

If you can share which step is being skipped and what the run history shows for inputs, that will help narrow it down further!

References

Use SharePoint and Power Automate to build workflows – Microsoft Learn

Overview of using Outlook and Power Automate – Microsoft Learn

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CD-10061443-0 4 on at

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Hi RaghavMishra

I just want to clarify that this is for existing emails being stored in an outlook folder rather than newly received emails. Thank you for the information above that you provided and the compose year part of my workflow can't seem to find the folders in the mailbox named with the year.

ActionConditionFailed
The execution of template action 'Compose_Year' is skipped: there are no items to repeat.

{

"type": "Compose",

"inputs": "@formatDateTime(item()?['receivedTime'], 'yyyy')"

}

Would this be the wrong step to be using for the workflow?

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So, because it is looking in the parent folder for the email the flow is not seeing the subfolders which need to be copied over with all their email contents to the SharePoint folder.

Parent folder -> Year Folder -> folders named with date and employee name.

I don't see a way to list out the subfolders that would work with the get email command.

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