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Deprecation of the “Send me an email notification” action

Hi community! We are writing to communicate the deprecation of the “Send me an email notification” action.

What is changing?

The action "Send me an email notification" (hereafter referred to as the "deprecated action") in the Notifications connector has been deprecated. We encourage you to now utilize one of these two existing actions: the "Send an email (V2)" action available in the Outlook connector, or the "Send an email notification (V3)" available in the Mail connector.

Why is this change happening?

Security is our top priority, and these actions provide better security and higher service reliability for our customers.

How do I adjust to the change?

If you don't currently use the "Send me an email notification" action for your flows, then you won't need to make any changes. However, please follow this guide to migrate from the deprecated action:

Open the flow that contains the action "Send me an email notification" from the Notifications connector.
(Optional) add the Get my profile (V2) action to the beginning of your flow. This action will fetch the Microsoft profile of the owner of the Office 365 Users connection used in the flow run. This action will allow you to preserve the same behavior as the deprecation action (which always sent the email to the connection owner). This step is optional if you intend to specify an exact email address as the recipient.
Add one of the following actions to the flow where you want it in the flow:
1. Outlook connector (recommended): Send an email (V2)
2. Mail connector: Send an email notification (V3)
In the “To” field of the new action, click "Switch to Advanced Mode" and in the field click on the lightning bolt icon.
In the token picker select “Mail” from the “Get my profile” action.
Copy over the email title and body from the deprecated action into the new action.
Delete the old, deprecated action.
Save your flow. You can optionally test your flow to make sure it is working as expected.

How do I find the actions in my flows?

If you aren’t sure which flows might be calling the "Send me an email notification" action, then you can create a flow to list those flows. The deprecated action has an operation ID of “SendEmailNotification”, so call the List Flows as Admin (V2) action, iterate over those flows calling the Get Flows as Admin action for each, parse JSON on the “actions” result, and then look for the “swaggerOperationId” property to have a value of “SendEmailNotification”. You can also consider checking that the property "api/name" has a value of "shared_flowpush" to confirm that you are looking at actions from the Notifications connector, and not any other third-party or custom connector actions.

What is the deprecation timeline?

Connector design-time: enforcement of the connector action deprecation at design-time is currently being rolled out, so you will not be able to add the deprecated action to new flows anymore.
Runtime: in a few months, we'll evaluate migration progress and start enforcing the deprecation at runtime, so the "Send me an email notification" may begin to fail at runtime.