How to draft an email message with Power Automate

I found an interesting bug (or feature) when you want to use the out of the box action of the Outlook connector. I will show it to you shortly and also explain how to overcome this bug.

When you write normal text in the input field, you will get the html code in your email draft:

This is really odd and not the expected behavior.

However, if you click on the Code View button (</>) you will get the HTML view. If you now remove the HTML text completely and replace it with your text from before you will get the following:

After running the flow the draft in Outlook will look exactly as expected:

I find this rather odd but maybe it is a feature.

You could also use an HTTP call to create an email draft but I think this would be a little overpowered in most scenarios. If you want to go this route, you can follow this post: https://damobird365.com/create-a-draft-email-in-outlook/