I have been facing issues with the get outlook mail messages activity. I went through a few topics in the forum and tried those steps like emptying the account field etc,and still facing the same issue. I tried this on two different machines both with a windows 10 platform and the outlook version 2016 and getting the same error on both the machines.
When I tried the same activity on a windows 7 operating system with outlook 2010 and it works perfectly fine. Please suggest if there are any other changes to be made to my flow
My flow just has get outlook mail message activity and a for each activity to iterate through and writeline the subject of every mail. When I run the flow, I get an error “The specified folder does not exist”.
@indra I have removed the account property and tried…still getting the same error. The only fields I have filled in the Get Outlook Mail Message activity are
-mail folder(“Inbox”)
-Mail Messages (my variable name)
-Top (5)
@Indra None of the folders are working…I have tried other folders too…The same thing works on a windows 7 machine (with outlook 2010) as mentioned.
Hi,
Try with unchecked checkbox Mark as read option in get outlook mail message activity and select only one checkbox OnlyUnreadMessage then try (choose one of them at a time)
It will work.
I tried with this option by checking only the OnlyUnreadMessage checkbox and still the same.
Also I found that when I copy the same workflow file to my temporary outlook folder (appdata) and run it from there it works fine perfectly…but when I run the same from local documents or desktop it throws this error message
Tried running the same on a different machine with an enterprise version and it was working fine, so it was something wrong with my machine
Tried reinstalling UIPath and activating it, issue persisted
Tried creating a subfolder under Inbox and changing the folder to Inbox\New_folder, worked on my colleague’s machine, not mine.
Tried assigning my email address in the email option, didn’t work
Unchecking the only unread emails option, didn’t work
Reducing the top emails number/ Increasing it… didn’t work
Suddenly i realized it could be the countless community activities other than UiPath that i had installed, so I un-installed them all, didn’t work
Then finally i went for uninstalling and re-installing Microsoft Office
Also, along with this issue, i was facing issue with Excel Application Scope as well, so that confirmed something was definitely wrong with Microsoft Office.
So yeah reinstalling Microsoft office worked for me. Let’s see if it does the trick for you.
This may not have been your issue, but for those who receive the “Specified folder does not exist” error, check your Account property in the Get Outlook Mail Message Activity - IT IS CASE SENSITIVE.
I have had the same issue with the latest version of UiPath.Mail.Activities 1.5.1 it did not recognise the “Inbox” or any folders.
How I fixed the issue was to just downgrade the version to UiPath.Mail.Activities to 1.4.1 and then Upgraded it back to 1.5.1 and it seemed to re-register the dependencies for outlook.
It worked like a dream after that. Please try this before re-install Outlook or moving environments.
I am having the same issue “Get Outlook Mail Messages: The specified folder does not exist” upon use of Outlook 2016 on Windows 10 OS. Does anyone has a solution to this problem? Please reach out to me ASAP!! Thank you
This was super annoying to find out that Account was case sensitive!
I have a couple shared inboxes as well and was using the full email address instead of the Account Name.
This answer really helped me! When I checked the name of the inbox folder in outlook, I realized that my outlook is in a different language (Dutch) than the language I am running Studio in (English). When I changed “Inbox” to “Postvak IN” the problem was resolved.