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Send Email Message through outlook - Account field

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I am using Send Email message activity. I set account address in a variable. but getting error ' failed to find outlook account'

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    Is the account added to your Outlook app?

  • soumojit Profile Picture
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    Yes, account is added to outlook app. If I write email address in the account field, above mentioned error is not thrown,but if I provide same email address in variable and use it in 'Account' field. it doesn't work and throw error.

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    Can you share a screenshot of your flow where the %UserEmail% variable is initialized and the Send email action is used?

  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
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    Just to confirm the purpose of each field:

     

    Account:  this should be the active windows login user.  So, [windowsuser]@[domain].com

    "Send email message from:  Account" would then use [windowsuser]@[domain].com to send the email

     

    If you want to send the email from another user's outlook, several things have to happen.  In PAD, you need to pick "Send email message from: Other" and then a new field appears where you would enter [otheruser]@[domain].com

     

    But your IT team also needs to give [windowsuser]@[domain].com the ability to send emails on behalf of [otheruser]@[domain].com

     

    For instance, our customer relations rep had permission to send emails out from our relationship managers' email addresses, but this is setup within Windows/Outlook Directory settings and must be done prior to this bot working.

     

    Good luck!

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    This is not entirely correct. As long as the account is added to Outlook (which the OP said it is), the flow will be able to send an email from that account via Outlook. 

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