Power Automate Desktop | Emails and Outlook exercise | Get a list of emails in a folder and list out their senders

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Software ==> Power Automate Desktop  (18 exercises)
Version ==> Latest version
Topic ==> Emails and Outlook  (4 exercises)
Level ==> Harder than average
Subject ==> Power Automate training

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Ever wondered who contributes the most to your junk mail?  Choose an Outlook folder to process:

Folder to process

This exercise invites you to write a flow to list out the senders of all the emails in a given folder.

 

Create a flow called Divide junk mail to read in the emails from your chosen Outlook folder, then loop over these adding the sender of each to a list containing strings of text (ie containing just the names of your email senders - this list will inevitably contain many duplicates).

Write this list out to Excel for further processing:

Start of list

Your Excel workbook should contain a list of senders of emails.

 

You could now (in Excel, not Power Automate Desktop) create a pivot table based on this column of senders to reveal your most persistent emailers:

List of senders counted

An example of what you might see at the top of your list of most persistent emailers.  Microsoft at number one is OK, but a finance company and a golf equipment company? For someone who doesn't play golf?

Save and close your flow, then start the laborious process of unsubscribing from email lists ...

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