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Assistance needed to connect to Exchange online mailbox if not using IMAP

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Hi,

 

I can connect to my office365 mailbox using IMAP, but my understanding is that Microsoft is planning to discontinue IMAP soon. Could you please help on how I can get Power Automate to connect to my office365 mailbox.

 

What option do I have when IMAP is discontinued?

 

Thanks

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  • Henrik_M Profile Picture
    2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    What is the reason for not handling Office 365 stuff from a cloud flow? 🙂

  • hrudy Profile Picture
    2 on at

    The main reason is because we will need to trigger a process that is currently running on premise based on the email received on the O365 mailbox. We currently use WinAutomation (which is now replaced with Power Automate) on premise and only recently we migrated to Exchange online mailbox. We managed to get the IMAP working to connect to O365 mailbox  using the IMAP server (outlook.office365.com) and then run the internal process on premise.

     

    With IMAP going to be discontinued, we need to find a different way doing this.

     

     

     

  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    5,727 Moderator on at

    If you are looking for a PAD answer only (i.e. no subscription, no cloud flow).  There are commands to connect to your Outlook on your computer, scan for specific e-mails and take action on those.  The only caveat is that you have to trigger the flow manually.  So, if these aren't on a time crunch, you can create a solution solely in PAD that you run attended at a frequency of your choosing to process the e-mails sitting in Outlook.

     

    I have created a couple of these.  How I set them up is:  I first setup an Outlook rule so that all the relevant emails are automatically moved to a specific folder upon originally receiving them.  When I initiate PAD, it is pointed to the specific folder to read all Unread emails from that particular folder, process them, and then mark them as read.

     

    Hope this helps. 

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