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Extracting 'Outlook item' email attachments

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Hello Microsoft community, I'm trying to find a way to open email attachments of the type "Outlook item" in power automate.
At the moment, I have tried using the "Get attachment" action and "Get email" action to try to extract the said "Outlook Item" attachment but none of these has quite worked out. I suspect both actions are accustomed to traditional pdf, jpg, and other attachments.

With the "Get attachment" action, the main challenge stems from the inability of flows to identify the 'Attachment Id' of the Outlook item thus making it impossible to save or run the flow. Is there perhaps a way to work around this, or maybe a more suitable connector for extracting Outlook item attachments?

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  • Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    53,963 Moderator on at

    Hi @manny239 

     

    Not following, too many umms lol

     

    1. Get an Email

    2. Get the Attachments

    3. Loop through attachments and save them to wherever you want

    4. Open the attachment based on the document type

    BTW I don't know what Open means

     

    Please share some pictures of your flow, avoid stating what the platform does or doesn't do, just explain what you need as it causes more confusion.

     

    I didn't read one thing you cannot do in a flow, assuming I know what Open reads


    If I have helped you, I would really appreciate if you please Mark my answer as Resolved/Answered, and give it a thumbs up, so it can help others

    Cheers

    Thank You
    Michael Gernaey MCT | MCSE | MCP | Self-Contractor| Ex-Microsoft
    https://gernaeysoftware.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgernaey

  • manny239 Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Hi @FLMike.
    Apologies for the confusion earlier. I am trying to pull msg and eml attachments from an email. I have attached screenshots to elucidate further

     

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  • manny239 Profile Picture
    4 on at

    @AlexEncodian thanks for sharing, I'll try Encodian's action with my flow. 

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