I have a task to automatically process emails and extract data as they are received in a specific inbox.

Hoping someone has done something similar and can help suggest the best way to architect this.

My thoughts/hopes was to utilize a function app with some kind of event trigger possibly from event grid.

Is this possible? How would I go about setting this up?

thanks

EDIT

I am aware that this possible within logic apps, however in this scenario I am looking at using a function app. I would appreciate any feedback to achieve this.

Thank you

I have a task to automatically process emails and extract data as they are received in a specific inbox.

Hoping someone has done something similar and can help suggest the best way to architect this.

My thoughts/hopes was to utilize a function app with some kind of event trigger possibly from event grid.

Is this possible? How would I go about setting this up?

thanks

EDIT

I am aware that this possible within logic apps, however in this scenario I am looking at using a function app. I would appreciate any feedback to achieve this.

Thank you

• azure
• azure-functions
• azure-eventgrid

Share Improve this question Follow edited Apr 2 at 2:21 Todd asked Mar 23 at 10:16 ToddTodd 4966 bronze badges 4

• Do yourself a favour and use a LogicApp, much easier. – Skin Commented Mar 23 at 22:58
• I am trying to avoid using logic apps – Todd Commented Mar 24 at 3:54
• 3 Any particular reason why? – Skin Commented Mar 24 at 3:58
• Logic App is such a natural answer to this that I read the question as being about Logic Apps. There is no built-in Azure Function trigger for email, so you will have to query via graph API on a schedule, which introduces its own problem set. You must decide if a minimal logic app is worse than those problems. – KonTheCat Commented Mar 25 at 2:16

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Can an Azure Function Be Triggered By Email Being Received In A Specific Inbox

Thanks @Skin and @KonTheCat that, Azure Functions cannot directly trigger email, but the best alternative approach would be Azure Logic Apps as below;

Or you can also use HTTP, to get the response and then send the email, or you can also call the logic app from function as this would be the last step of function app and for that Logic app trigger would be: