Namespace: microsoft.graph
Copy a message to a folder within the user's mailbox.
This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.
| Global service |
US Government L4 |
US Government L5 (DOD) |
China operated by 21Vianet |
| ✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Permissions
Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.
| Permission type |
Least privileged permissions |
Higher privileged permissions |
| Delegated (work or school account) |
Mail.ReadWrite |
Not available. |
| Delegated (personal Microsoft account) |
Mail.ReadWrite |
Not available. |
| Application |
Mail.ReadWrite |
Not available. |
HTTP request
POST /me/messages/{id}/copy
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/copy
POST /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/copy
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/copy
| Header |
Value |
| Authorization |
Bearer {token}. Required. |
| Content-Type |
application/json. Required. |
Request body
In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.
| Parameter |
Type |
Description |
| destinationId |
String |
The destination folder ID, or a well-known folder name. For a list of supported well-known folder names, see mailFolder resource type. |
Response
If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and a message resource in the response body.
Example
Here is an example of how to call this API.
Request
The following example shows a request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages/{id}/copy
Content-type: application/json
{
"destinationId": "destinationId-value"
}
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x
// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Me.Messages.Item.Copy;
var requestBody = new CopyPostRequestBody
{
DestinationId = "destinationId-value",
};
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Messages["{message-id}"].Copy.PostAsync(requestBody);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*
// Dependencies
import (
"context"
msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
//other-imports
)
requestBody := graphusers.NewItemCopyPostRequestBody()
destinationId := "destinationId-value"
requestBody.SetDestinationId(&destinationId)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
copy, err := graphClient.Me().Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").Copy().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x
GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);
com.microsoft.graph.users.item.messages.item.copy.CopyPostRequestBody copyPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.users.item.messages.item.copy.CopyPostRequestBody();
copyPostRequestBody.setDestinationId("destinationId-value");
var result = graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").copy().post(copyPostRequestBody);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
const message = {
destinationId: 'destinationId-value'
};
await client.api('/me/messages/{id}/copy')
.post(message);
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Users\Item\Messages\Item\Copy\CopyPostRequestBody;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$requestBody = new CopyPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setDestinationId('destinationId-value');
$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->copy()->post($requestBody)->wait();
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Mail
$params = @{
destinationId = "destinationId-value"
}
# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Copy-MgUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId -BodyParameter $params
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.users.item.messages.item.copy.copy_post_request_body import CopyPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = CopyPostRequestBody(
destination_id = "destinationId-value",
)
result = await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').copy.post(request_body)
For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.
Response
The following example shows the response.
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"receivedDateTime": "datetime-value",
"sentDateTime": "datetime-value",
"hasAttachments": true,
"subject": "subject-value",
"body": {
"contentType": "",
"content": "content-value"
},
"bodyPreview": "bodyPreview-value"
}