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Email files saved on a local drive need to be forwarded to a mailbox

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I am trying to automate the movement of 100s of emails stored in a OneDrive folder (C:\Users\XXX\OneDrive_xxx\Desktop\

ALLFY2023\FY2023\XXX) to a group mailbox. (smb_p_xxx@autodesk.com ). The group mailbox has a cloud flow that saves the attachments to a SharePoint list whenever a new email with attachments is detected. I can find lots of instruction on how to move multiple emails out of a mailbox, but not back into a mailbox. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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If these are .msg files that are saved, there's not much you can do, other than use Run application to open each file, which should force Outlook to run, and then use the Outlook UI to forward it. But that is a bit of a pain to do.

Alternatively, you could use scripting such as VBscript or PowerShell to do the same.

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That's what I was afraid of 🙂 Thanks for your quick reply!
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@lisasantoro Let me know if you need help with the scripting.

if you are going with UI Approach then approach proposed by Agnius should work.
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It turns out that moving the .msg files into the group mailbox will trigger the automation to save them to SharePoint, so I don't need any further scripting for that. However, I have another problem I don't know how to solve. When the emails were moved to the OneDrive folder, the name of the .msg file was changed to follow a standard format : (Ex. "ABCco 12345 USD 5123.50.msg"). When I move the files into the mailbox, the Automation is set to pick up the Subject field, which is not the same as the file name anymore. Is there any way to pick up the file name instead?