Filter option in Get Outlook Mail Messages activity is not working

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Earlier I am using Get Outlook Mail Messages activity to get the emails from Outlook without filter option (Just Account, Folder and Output emails). After getting all the emails from the specific folder I used to loop through all the emails to find the specific email with the text in the email body.

As my mails are being increased day by day. I was getting Timeout exception from Get Outlook Mail Messages activity.

Then I started using Filter option to check for the specific email with a text in the body as below
“@SQL=urn:schemas:httpmail:textdescription like '%”+textToSearchInMailBody+“%'”

This was working fine with my all old emails and now with the new emails that I received, it was not working. It is not able to find the email with the specific text in the body.

If anyone has an idea about this, please share your thoughts.

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@Prathap_Reddy what version of Mail activities package are you using?

I’ve just run a test with 1.10.5 version and it worked as expected: Get Outlook Mail Messages returns emails containingIT Automation text in body. I tried with both filters from below:
“@SQL=urn:schemas:httpmail:textdescription like ‘%IT Automation%’”
“@SQL=”“urn:schemas:httpmail:textdescription”" like ‘%IT Automation%’"

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Thanks for the reply @ovidiuponoran,

I am using 1.10.5 version only. I got your point. my issue is, the filter option is working fine with old emails in outlook that were already exists in the outlook. Today I got new emails in my outlook and for those the filter option is not working.

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If you set another filter that returns the emails from today, does it work?
Something like “[Received] >= '” + DateTime.Today.ToString(“d”) + " 00:00AM’"

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Yes! Its working with all other filters. But based on my requirement, i need to filter out the email based on the unique text in the email body. So i need to use the only filter option that was available “@SQL=”“urn:schemas:httpmail:textdescription”" like ‘%UiPath IT Automation%’".

If you have any idea please do share…

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Indeed, this is strange. By any chance, is it possible to save such email as .msg and send it to me to check it in my test environment?

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Unfortunately Sorry!!!

I can’t share the email (contains confidential data).
Have you tried with the new emails that was created today?

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Understood. Yes, I tried with one email that I’ve sent to myself today and it is working fine.

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Hi @ovidiuponoran,

Issue was resolved after I enable the cache in Outlook. Now filter in “Get Outlook Mail Messages” activity is working fine in finding the emails with specific text in the mail body.

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