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Unable to send the mail to Distribution group

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how to send a mail to distribution group using flow. i am not the member of that group.i need to share the file once got saved in sharepoint  to group members using flow 

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  • abm abm Profile Picture
    32,985 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi @mmvignesh ,

     

    You need to be a member of that group. Also you need to use flow action List group members to get all the group members by Apply to each loop for sending the email notification.

     

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    Hi @mmvignesh ,

     

    I have made a test on my side and you could send email to Distribution group, and you just need to enter the Distribution group email address in the send an emil action, it is the same as send an email to a person.

    The flow should as screenshot below:

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    Best regards,

    Alice       

     

    Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

     

  • knipsa Profile Picture
    27 on at

    I had the same issue and found a workaround:

    Just put the address of the distribution group into a string variable and use this variable in the send mail action.sendMailToDistributionGroup.png

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    This worked perfectly for me. I found that this would not let me include my E-mail in the TO: field along with the DL variable string. No worries. In this case I am a member of the DL so I was able to receive the Email sent to the DL.

  • ivanp Profile Picture
    2 on at

    knipsa solution also worked perfectly for me - a good workaround - thank you

  • laurenmh Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Hi! I'm new to this. Just so I understand - under the "Initialize Variable" step, the "Value" is the email address for the distribution list? And then all you need in the "To" line under the email step is that variable? 

     

    Thank you so much!

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