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Save email message with unique file name?

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Topic: Save email message with unique file name?

Posted By: dpace32
Subject: Save email message with unique file name?
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2020 at 5:14pm

Hello - I am trying to save every inbound message as a local file with a unique file name. I thought I would use %message_id% but unfortunately I am having a hard time saving the file with message_id because I believe the message_id can contain special characters or is too long.

What other way can I generate a unique file name or modify message_id to work?

The way I am create the file is with Read/Write Text File component and saving the %msg_mimetext% in the body of the file.

Thank you

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Posted By: Liam
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2020 at 11:14am

Typically I use %msg_subject%%msg_date%

this should be sufficient to make a per message file unique

Although I haven't used this myself the Set Variable action has an operation to create a GUID, this might work for file names