🌟 Unlock 3 Effortless Steps to Save Email Attachments Automatically

If you’re tired of repeating the same manual task every time an email arrives, these 3 effortless steps to save email attachments will change your workflow forever. Using Power Automate, you can send email attachments directly to SharePoint – automatically and without extra conditions or actions.

Let’s walk through how to implement it in the most optimized way.

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📥 Why Automate?

Saving attachments manually is inefficient and prone to human error. With 3 effortless steps to save email attachments, you’ll reduce time waste, eliminate repetitive clicking, and gain peace of mind with reliable, hands-off file handling.

🧰 What You’ll Need

Before starting the process, ensure you have:

Microsoft 365 account with Outlook and SharePoint access
A SharePoint document library for storing attachments
Access to Power Automate

✅ How to Save Email Attachments Automatically in 3 Effortless Steps

🔹 Step 1: Create a New Automated Flow

Visit make.powerautomate.com. Click on “My Flows” from the left sidebar.
Click “New Flow” at the top > choose “Automated Cloud Flow”.
Enter the flow name: Save email attachment to SharePoint
Search for “new email”
Select “When a new email arrives (V3)”
This trigger activates the flow when a new email is received.
Click “Create.”

🔹 Step 2: Configure Trigger to Include Only Emails With Attachments

Inside the When a new email arrives (V3) trigger:
Click the “Advanced parameters” dropdown and set the following options:
Include Attachments: Yes
Only with Attachments: Yes

✅ This streamlines the process by ensuring the flow only runs for emails that actually contain attachments and automatically includes the attachment content.

Configure Trigger to include Only Emails with Attachments

🔹 Step 3: Add “Create File” Action for SharePoint

Below the trigger:

Click the plus (+) icon
Search for “Create file”
Choose Create file under SharePoint

Configure it:

Site Address: Select your SharePoint site
Folder Path: Choose your target document library
File Name: Select Attachments Name by clicking on flash icon, the icon will appear there when you click inside the File name field
File Content: Select Attachments Content by clicking on flash icon, the icon will appear there when you click inside the File name field

💡Power Automate will automatically wrap this in an For each or Apply to each loop to handle multiple files from the same email.

3 Effortless Steps to Save Email Attachments

🔹 Test the Flow

Click Save
Send yourself a test email with attachments
Visit your SharePoint library to confirm that the files are uploaded correctly

🔹 Optional Filtering

To fine-tune your flow, you can add filters directly inside the trigger:

From: Restrict to a specific sender (e.g., invoices@vendor.com)
Subject Filter: E.g., only run if the subject contains “Invoice”

This makes your flow more relevant and avoids unnecessary runs.

🧠 Recap of Trigger and Action Flow

Action	Purpose
When a new email arrives (V3)	Starts the flow on receiving an email with attachments
For each	Loops through all included attachments
Create File (SharePoint)	Saves attachments to a specified SharePoint folder automatically

🎯 Why These 3 Effortless Steps to Save Email Attachments Work

By leveraging Include Attachments and Only with Attachments in the trigger, you eliminate:

The need for the Get Attachments action
Extra Condition blocks
Complex expressions or checks

These 3 effortless steps to save email attachments make your automation faster, simpler, and much easier to maintain.