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Office 365 email - ability to search body of email for criteria and take an action in another application

  • August 18, 2020
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Is there a way to search the subject line, or body of an email, and have the trigger an action within another application.   All I’m seeing in Zapier is the ability to send an email or create a calendar event.

Best answer by andywingrave

Hello! There is indeed (kind of). You would first need to create the trigger “new Email”, and then filter if the body contains the desired content - Like this:

 

 

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andywingrave
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  • August 26, 2020

Hello! There is indeed (kind of). You would first need to create the trigger “new Email”, and then filter if the body contains the desired content - Like this:

 

 


Wemakefuture
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  • Zapier Solution Partner
  • August 27, 2020

Take care in cases of HTML emails it could fail. Strip the html before.


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  • October 29, 2020

Thanks for these recommendations!