Description

This activity allows you to read emails received in the Outlook mail service.

Read emails from folders and subfolders

With this activity, you can read emails from any folders and subfolders in your mail client. Typically, a mail client has a hierarchy of several folders, e.g:

• Inbox
  • Inbox subfolder
• Sent
• Important
  • Important subfolder
• Drafts

If you want to read emails from a certain folder, you have to specify its full name with a / character, for example:

Inbox/{{Subfolder name}}

Please note that in this case, you must specify the original name of the folder. If in your mail client the inbox is called "Inbox", you must write the name of the parent folder. For example, if the "Inbox" folder contains the "Work" folder, you must write the path to the folder in the "Mail folder name" parameter like this:

Inbox/Work

Parameters

Outlook account

Set a value: this allows you to select your account from the drop-down list.

Note that due to Outlook restrictions, this option in Studio Pro only displays accounts that were created when Outlook started. If you have opened Outlook and created any account - the mail client must be restarted for Studio Pro to get an updated list of accounts.

Calculate a value: this allows you to use a special formula or a special method to determine the account.

Save the previous step result: it takes the result of the activity from the previous workflow step as the email client account.

Date from

If there is no value for the “Date from”  parameter, emails from the last 24 hours will be read. 

1. Set a value: allows you to explicitly specify the date from which the mail messages are to be read. If you click in the corresponding field, the calendar will pop up, in which you can manually select the desired date.
2. Calculate a value: allows you to use a special formula or a special method to specify the date from which the messages are to be read. 
3. Save the previous step result: takes the result of the function from the previous workflow action as the date. 

Filter by status

Unread only

Read the emails with the "Unread" status only.

Starred only

Read the emails marked as "Important" only.

Filter by content

Subject contains

Retrieve emails with a specific subject.

1. Set a value: allows you to manually write a keyword for the subject of an email.
2. Calculate a value: allows you to use a special formula or a special method to specify a keyword.
3. Save the previous step result: takes the result of the action from the previous workflow step as the keyword.

Body contains

Retrieve emails that contain a certain value in the body (text) of the email.

1. Set a value: allows you to manually set a keyword for the body of the letter.
2. Save the previous step result: takes the result of the action from the previous workflow step as the keyword. 
3. Calculate a value: allows you to use a special formula or a special method to specify a keyword.

Sender

Retrieve emails that came from a specific sender.

1. Set a value: allows you to manually specify the sender of an email.
2. Calculate a value: allows you to use a special formula or a special method to specify the sender.
3. Save result of previous step: takes the name of the sender from the result of the previous step in the workflow.

Attachments

[
  {
    "from": [
      {
        "name": "sender's name",
        "address": "sender's email address"
      }
    ],
    "date": "time when this email has been sent",
    "receivedDate": "time when this email has been received",
    "replyTo": [
      {
        "name": "name from the 'reply-to' section of this email",
        "address": "email address from the 'reply-to' section of this email"
      }
    ],
    "to": [
   {
    "name": "receiver's name",
    "address": "receiver's email address"
   }
   ],
    "subject": "this particular email's subject",
    "text": "this email's text processed with an html-parser",
    "textPlain": "this email's text returned by the server",
    "hasAttachment": "Whether the email has an attachment or not",
    "original": {
    "body": "A raw email body, if you have selected the Download original checkbox"
    }
    "cc": [
      {
        "address": "email addresses of secondary recipients",
        "name": "names of secondary recipients"
      }
    ],
    "bcc": [
      {
        "address": "email addresses of tertiary recipients",
        "name": "names of tertiary recipients"
      }
    ],
    "attachments": [
   {
    "path": "path to the first attachment"
   },
   {
    "path": "path to the second attachment"
   }
],
  }
]