Retrieve the oldest email in the mailbox

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Hello everyone,

I need to retrieve only the 1 oldest email in the folder using the “GetOutlookMailMessage” activity. Is it possible to do it?

Thank you very much for your help!
Regards
John

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i dont think we can do this with existing activity, you can try below steps if volume is not high
after reading outlook Emails, use invoke Code with argument in/Out and write listOfMailmessageVariableName.Reverse
this will turn your oldest email on top

NOTE: this would work only if you mention the total emails, if email count is very high BOT would through the error.

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You can try the following code

OldestEmail = MailMessageList.AsEnumerable().OrderBy(Function(msg) msg.Headers("Date")).First()

You can replace the Date in the query with DateCreated or DateReceived properties and see if it solves your problem.

As @Gurram_Akhil mentioned, this should not be used when no of messages is huge.