Sending attachments with the mail (not Office365Outlook) connector

[PaulD1]

As per the following post, I can send emails with attachments directly from Power Apps using the Office365Outlook connector and SendMailV2 action:

Solved: send image via email - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com) 

I would like to do the same but using the Mail connector instead (so that the email does not need to come from the logged in user and so I do not need to maintain a separate Flow). Has anyone managed to get that to work?

It appears that the Mail connector has slightly different parameters and instead of accepting a single Attachment parameter (with the filenames and files in tabular format) it accepts a two parameters, one for files and one for filenames Mail - Connectors | Microsoft Docs

Working code for Office365Outlook.SendMailV2:

    ClearCollect(colAttachments,      AddColumns(ShowColumns(colImages,"Url"),"Name","attachment.jpg","ContentBytes",Url,"@odata.type",""));

    Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(
        emailRecipients,
        "New Infringement Details",
        emailBody,
        {Attachments: colAttachments}
    );

[v-xiaochen-msft]

Hi @PaulD1 ,

I did the test for you and it worked.

If you use list attachments as email attachments, you could try to use the value property of the attachment.

1\ Add a button control and set its onselect property to:

Mail.SendEmailV3("email","test","test",true,{filenames:"test2.jpg",files:First( First(LIST106).Attachments).Value})

In addition, you could also use base64 as the attachment content.

2\ Add a button control and set its onselect property to:

Best Regards,
Wearsky
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[PaulD1]

Thanks very much @v-xiaochen-msft - ideally I want to ability to send multiple attachments with the email and that pattern looks like it will only send the one. Also my images are in a collection and not stored as an Attachment.

That said, I've done a bit more reading on the Mail connector and it appears that is it now being heavily throttled (no more than 5 emails in a 5 minute period) so I may have to go down the Flow with OfficeOutlook connector after all 😞 

[v-xiaochen-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @PaulD1 ,

This connector does have these disadvantages.

It seems that it can only send one attachment at a time. And it has throttling limits (no more than 5 emails in a 5 minute period).

Therefore, using Outlook Connector will be more suitable for you.

Best Regards,
Wearsky
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[PaulD1]

Thanks for the confirmation @v-xiaochen-msft .

Yep, given the throttling and attachment limitations of the Mail connector I'll go with plan B of utilizing the Office365Outlook connector through Flow instead (I was trying to avoid dependence on Flow but that does not seem to be possible in this case).