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Retrieve emails out of imap subfolder

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Hi there!

 

I'm trying to retrieve e-mails from a subfolder of the Inbox by using the "retrieve email messages" action, but always get an error message "failed to access mail folder mySubfolder".

 

In the action setting under Email Filters, Mail Folder I have tried:

- "Inbox" => worked fine for retrieving emails from the Inbox

- Inbox/mySubfolder -> did not work

- /Inbox/mySubfolder  -> did not work

 

I have checked the imap address of that subfolder in thunderbird:

imap://mydomain.com/INBOX/mySubfolder 

 

I couldn't figure out why this does not work. Does anybody have a suggestion?

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  • manuelstgomes Profile Picture
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    Hi @mkto 

     

    Can you please share the Power Automate and obfuscate anything private that you can't share so that I can have a better understanding of what you're trying to do and the issues.

     

    Cheers
    Manuel

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  • mkto Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Sure! And thanks for looking into this.

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    BR

    mkto

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on at

    Was there ever an answer to this? I need an answer to this badly 🙂

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on at

    To clarify, my question was in the PAD (Power Automate Desktop) context and it worked for me to use Inbox/mySubInbox. So this I solved myself.  

  • Aidan31 Profile Picture
    11 on at

    Hi, did you get an answer to this? I'm having this exact issue. Fine with inbox but cannot find sub folder

  • RColeman24 Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Are you using backslash (\) when adding additional subfolders. This has worked for me when working through my flow. 

  • Humanoid-x Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Wait... what do you mean Inbox/mySubInbox... 
    Isnt that the orginal thing that didnt work.

  • Humanoid-x Profile Picture
    4 on at

    Anyone figure this out... its 2023 now

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