Microsoft Power Automate (formerly known as Microsoft Flow) is a powerful tool that allows users to automate workflows between various applications and services.

One common use case is to trigger a flow when a new email arrives. However, sometimes you might want to restrict this trigger to only fire under certain conditions, such as when an email comes from a specific sender or contains specific keywords. In this post, we’ll walk through how to set up and restrict the trigger for when a new email arrives in Power Automate and will restrict it to sender only.

You can do it in two ways:

First thing is to create a flow by following below steps:

Log in to Power Automate:

• Go to Power Automate.
• Sign in with your Microsoft account.

Create a New Flow:

• Click on “Create” on the left sidebar.
• Select “Automated cloud flow” from the options.
• Name your flow (e.g., “Restrict Email Trigger Flow”).

Choose a Trigger:

• In the “Choose your flow’s trigger” search bar, type “Outlook”.
• Select the trigger “When a new email arrives (V3)”.

Option1 à You add the condition in the action itself.

Update the From field with the addresses you want.

What if you want to do it via trigger condition in the settings of the trigger itself, this can be done by following the below option:

Option 2 à Go to the Settings of the trigger by clicking three dots.

ADD the trigger condition as shown below

@Or(equals(triggerOutputs()?[‘body/from’],’Reports@labtest.com’), equals(triggerOutputs()?[‘body/from’],Vikas@labtest.com’),equals(triggerOutputs()?[‘body/from’],’Alerts@labtest.com’))

Note: Please add case sensitive emails same as they appear in outlook else you will keep on troubleshooting why flow is not invoking, I used lower case character in one of the case where as Outlook was showing upper case for first character and I spent lot of time to troubleshoot it 😊

I hope this post will assist you in restricting the email trigger if you are designing some PowerAutomate email related automation.

 

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