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Troubleshooting unread emails in Outlook's specific folder search

  • January 12, 2026
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Hi,

Using the outlook “Find Emails in Specific Folder” module,

choosing the right folder

and setting the search Terms: “isread:no”
leads to the error message

Failed to find an email in folder in Microsoft Outlook

Error from halted execution: Nothing could be found for the search.
 

 

When i remove the “isread:no” terms, i get the emails ok, but i need to only retrieve unread mails from a specific folder from an outlook account.

Anyone experiencing similar problems or can point me to what i am doing wrong?
Best
ikm

2 replies

Sparsh from Automation Jinn
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Hey ​@ikm,

I don’t think isread:no search term operation is supported by Zapier.

A workaround could be adding a Filter after New Email in Specific Folder trigger. There you can check from the trigger data if the isread is false. Hope it helps!


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  • January 12, 2026

Hey ​@Sparsh from Automation Jinn 

many thanks for your answer!

While yes, this would work, it would require zapier to always read ALL the mails. A little inefficient but no dealbreaker for us in this context.

However i’d be really surprised if zapier is not capable to read microsoft emails correctly (like with unread/read flags). But hey.

So out of curiousity - anyone here reading microsoft email accounts with zapier having solved this?