Outlook Delete Email

Outlook Delete Email

Type: outlook-delete-email  ·  Package: Outlook Activities v1.0.4

Deletes an email by moving it to Outlook’s Deleted Items folder. Useful for discarding irrelevant or advertising emails within a classification process, while keeping the option to recover them.

How it works

Given the email’s EntryID, it runs Outlook’s standard delete: the email goes to Deleted Items and can be recovered from there until the folder is emptied. If the email was already in Deleted Items, Outlook deletes it permanently.

After deleting it, its EntryID no longer works for the other activities: delete it at the end of the email’s handling.

Required parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
entryId	string	—	EntryID of the email (from email.Id).

Optional parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
session	ZoanOutlookSession	—	Session from Outlook Connect. Inherited inside the Connect body; without a session the default account is used.

Output

This activity does not return a value.

Common errors

Message	Cause and fix
'entryId' is required.	The parameter is missing or the expression returned null.
Outlook error when opening the item	The EntryID no longer exists (the email was deleted or moved earlier) or belongs to another profile. Avoid deleting the same email twice and use the .Id from a recent read.

Example

For Each   items = emails   itemVariable = email
 └─ activities:
      If   condition = email.Subject.ToLower().Contains("advertising")
       └─ then:
            Outlook Delete Email   entryId = email.Id

It goes to Deleted Items, it is not wiped

The email is moved to Outlook’s trash, so it is recoverable from there until it is emptied. To just take it out of the flow without deleting it, consider moving it to another folder.

Related activities

• Outlook Move Email — archive to another folder instead of deleting.
• Outlook Mark Read — mark as read.