Get message

Article
08/23/2023

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Retrieve the properties and relationships of the message object.

For example, you can get a message and expand all the mention instances in the message. For an example, see Example 2.

You can use the $value parameter to get the MIME content of a message. For an example, see Example 5.

An app can get a message in another user's mail folder under two conditions:

If the app has application permissions
If the app has the appropriate delegated permissions from one user, and another user has shared a mail folder with that user, or has given delegated access to that user. For details, see Get Outlook messages in a shared or delegated folder.

Because the message resource supports extensions, you can also use the GET operation to get custom properties and extension data in a message instance.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Mail.ReadBasic, Mail.Read
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Mail.ReadBasic, Mail.Read
Application	Mail.ReadBasic.All, Mail.Read

HTTP request

To get the specified message:

GET /me/messages/{id}
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}
GET /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}

To get the MIME content of the specified message:

GET /me/messages/{id}/$value
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/$value
GET /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/$value
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/$value

To get a message and expand all mentions in the message:

GET /me/messages/{id}?$expand=mentions
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}?$expand=mentions
GET /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}?$expand=mentions
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}?$expand=mentions

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData query parameters to help customize the response.

Use the $value parameter to get the MIME content of a message.

Use the $expand query parameter on the mentions navigation property to get a message with the details of each mention in the message expanded.

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Prefer: outlook.body-content-type	string	The format of the body and uniqueBody properties to be returned in. Values can be "text" or "html". A `Preference-Applied` header is returned as confirmation if this `Prefer` header is specified. If the header is not specified, the body and uniqueBody properties are returned in HTML format. Optional.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and message object in the response body.

Specifying the $value parameter returns the message content in MIME format, and not a message resource.

Examples

Example 1: Get a specific message

Request

The first example gets the specified message. It does not specify any header to indicate the format of the body to be returned.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/AAMkAGI1AAAoZCfHAAA=


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// 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}"].GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta users messages get --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id}

Important

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
messages, err := graphClient.Me().Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

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);

Message result = graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").get();

Important

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);

let message = await client.api('/me/messages/AAMkAGI1AAAoZCfHAAA=')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->get()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').get()

Important

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. The body and uniqueBody properties are returned in the default HTML format.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('cd209b0b-3f83-4c35-82d2-d88a61820480')/messages/$entity",
    "@odata.etag":"W/\"CQAAABYAAABmWdbhEgBXTophjCWt81m9AAAoZYj4\"",
    "id":"AAMkAGI1AAAoZCfHAAA=",
    "subject":"Welcome to our group!",
    "bodyPreview":"Welcome to our group, Dana! Hope you will enjoy working with us !\r\n",
    "body":{
        "contentType":"html",
        "content":"<html>\r\n<head></head><body><p>Welcome to our group, Dana! Hope you will enjoy working with us </p></body></html>\r\n"
    },
    "uniqueBody":{
        "contentType":"html",
        "content":"<html>\r\n<head></head><body><p>Welcome to our group, Dana! Hope you will enjoy working with us </p></body></html>\r\n"
    }
}

Example 2: Get all mentions in a specific message

Request

In the next example, the signed-in user is Dana Swope. The example shows getting the details of all the mentions in the specified message in Dana's mailbox.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/AQMkADJmMTUAAAgVZAAAA/?$expand=mentions


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// 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}"].GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Expand = new string []{ "mentions" };
});

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta users messages get --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id} --expand "mentions"

Important

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

requestParameters := &graphusers.ItemMessageItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Expand: [] string {"mentions"},
}
configuration := &graphusers.ItemMessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
messages, err := graphClient.Me().Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").Get(context.Background(), configuration)

Important

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);

Message result = graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.expand = new String []{"mentions"};
});

Important

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);

let message = await client.api('/me/messages/AQMkADJmMTUAAAgVZAAAA/')
	.version('beta')
	.expand('mentions')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Users\Item\Messages\Item\MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestConfiguration = new MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->expand = ["mentions"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId -ExpandProperty "mentions"

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.users.item.messages.item.message_item_request_builder import MessageItemRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = MessageItemRequestBuilder.MessageItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		expand = ["mentions"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

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

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#me/messages/$entity",
  "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('266efe5a-0fd7-4edd-877b-b2d1e561f193@ae01a323-3934-4475-a32d-af1274312bb0')/messages('AQMkADJmMTUAAAgVZAAAA')",
  "@odata.etag":"W/\"CQAAABYAAAAPFhK2FclcRbABBJhCde8iAAAAAATI\"",
  "id":"AQMkADJmMTUAAAgVZAAAA",
  "subject":"Start planning soon",
  "body":{
    "contentType":"HTML",
    "content":"<html><head></head><body><p><a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">@Dana Swope</a>,<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">@Randi Welch</a>, forgot to mention, I will be away&nbsp;this weekend. I can start on Monday though.</p></body></html>"
  },
  "bodyPreview":"@Dana Swope<mailto:[email protected]>, @Randi Welch, forgot to mention, I will be away this weekend. I can start on Monday though.",
  "sender":{
    "emailAddress":{
      "name":"Samantha Booth",
      "address":"[email protected]"
    }
  },
  "from":{
    "emailAddress":{
      "name":"Samantha Booth",
      "address":"[email protected]"
    }
  },
  "toRecipients":[
    {
      "emailAddress":{
        "name":"Dana Swope",
        "address":"[email protected]"
      }
    },
    {
      "emailAddress":{
        "name":"Randi Welch",
        "address":"[email protected]"
      }
    }
  ],
  "ccRecipients":[
  ],
  "bccRecipients":[
  ],
  "mentionsPreview":{
    "isMentioned":true
  },
  "mentions":[
    {
      "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('266efe5a-0fd7-4edd-877b-b2d1e561f193@ae01a323-3934-4475-a32d-af1274312bb0')/messages('AQMkADJmMTUAAAgVZAAAA')/mentions('138f4c0a-1130-4776-b780-bf79d73abb3f')",
      "id":"138f4c0a-1130-4776-b780-bf79d73abb3f",
      "mentioned":{
        "name":"Dana Swope",
        "address":"[email protected]"
      },
      "mentionText":null,
      "clientReference":null,
      "createdBy":{
        "name":"Samantha Booth",
        "address":"[email protected]"
      },
      "createdDateTime":"2016-07-21T07:40:20.152Z",
      "serverCreatedDateTime":"2016-07-21T07:40:20.152Z",
      "deepLink":null,
      "application":null
    },
    {
      "@odata.id":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('266efe5a-0fd7-4edd-877b-b2d1e561f193@ae01a323-3934-4475-a32d-af1274312bb0')/messages('AQMkADJmMTUAAAgVZAAAA')/mentions('7b94df1a-0086-482a-b0da-e62fae12f983')",
      "id":"7b94df1a-0086-482a-b0da-e62fae12f983",
      "mentioned":{
        "name":"Randi Welch",
        "address":"[email protected]"
      },
      "mentionText":null,
      "clientReference":null,
      "createdBy":{
        "name":"Samantha Booth",
        "address":"[email protected]"
      },
      "createdDateTime":"2016-07-21T07:40:20.158Z",
      "serverCreatedDateTime":"2016-07-21T07:40:20.158Z",
      "deepLink":null,
      "application":null
    }
  ]
}

Example 3: Get message body in text format

Request

The third example shows how to use a Prefer: outlook.body-content-type="text" header to get the body and uniqueBody of the specified message in text format.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/AAMkAGI1AAAoZCfHAAA=/?$select=subject,body,bodyPreview,uniqueBody
Prefer: outlook.body-content-type="text"


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// 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}"].GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "subject","body","bodyPreview","uniqueBody" };
	requestConfiguration.Headers.Add("Prefer", "outlook.body-content-type=\"text\"");
});

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta users messages get --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id} --select "subject,body,bodyPreview,uniqueBody"

Important

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  abstractions "github.com/microsoft/kiota-abstractions-go"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

headers := abstractions.NewRequestHeaders()
headers.Add("Prefer", "outlook.body-content-type=\"text\"")

requestParameters := &graphusers.ItemMessageItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Select: [] string {"subject","body","bodyPreview","uniqueBody"},
}
configuration := &graphusers.ItemMessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	Headers: headers,
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
messages, err := graphClient.Me().Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").Get(context.Background(), configuration)

Important

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);

Message result = graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"subject", "body", "bodyPreview", "uniqueBody"};
	requestConfiguration.headers.add("Prefer", "outlook.body-content-type=\"text\"");
});

Important

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);

let message = await client.api('/me/messages/AAMkAGI1AAAoZCfHAAA=/')
	.version('beta')
	.header('Prefer','outlook.body-content-type="text"')
	.select('subject,body,bodyPreview,uniqueBody')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Users\Item\Messages\Item\MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestConfiguration = new MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$headers = [
		'Prefer' => 'outlook.body-content-type="text"',
	];
$requestConfiguration->headers = $headers;

$queryParameters = MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->select = ["subject","body","bodyPreview","uniqueBody"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId -Property "subject,body,bodyPreview,uniqueBody"

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.users.item.messages.item.message_item_request_builder import MessageItemRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = MessageItemRequestBuilder.MessageItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		select = ["subject","body","bodyPreview","uniqueBody"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)
request_configuration.headers.add("Prefer", "outlook.body-content-type=\"text\"")


result = await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

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 includes a Preference-Applied: outlook.body-content-type header to acknowledge the Prefer: outlook.body-content-type request header.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
Preference-Applied: outlook.body-content-type="text"

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('cd209b0b-3f83-4c35-82d2-d88a61820480')/messages(subject,body,bodyPreview,uniqueBody)/$entity",
    "@odata.etag":"W/\"CQAAABYAAABmWdbhEgBXTophjCWt81m9AAAoZYj4\"",
    "id":"AAMkAGI1AAAoZCfHAAA=",
    "subject":"Welcome to our group!",
    "bodyPreview":"Welcome to our group, Dana! Hope you will enjoy working with us !\r\n\r\nWould you like to choose a day for our orientation from the available times below:\r\n\r\n\r\nDate\r\n        Time\r\n\r\nApril 14, 2017\r\n        1-3pm\r\n\r\nApril 21, 2017\r\n        10-12noon\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTh",
    "body":{
        "contentType":"text",
        "content":"Welcome to our group, Dana! Hope you will enjoy working with us [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] !\r\n\r\nWould you like to choose a day for our orientation from the available times below:\r\n\r\n\r\nDate\r\n        Time\r\n\r\nApril 14, 2017\r\n        1-3pm\r\n\r\nApril 21, 2017\r\n        10-12noon\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThanks!\r\n\r\n"
    },
    "uniqueBody":{
        "contentType":"text",
        "content":"Welcome to our group, Dana! Hope you will enjoy working with us [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] [\ud83d\ude0a] !\r\nWould you like to choose a day for our orientation from the available times below:\r\n\r\nDate\r\n        Time\r\n\r\nApril 14, 2017\r\n        1-3pm\r\n\r\nApril 21, 2017\r\n        10-12noon\r\n\r\n\r\nThanks!\r\n"
    }
}

Example 4: Get Internet message headers

Request

The fourth example shows how to get the Internet message headers of a specific message.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/AAMkAGVmMDEz/?$select=internetMessageHeaders


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// 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}"].GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "internetMessageHeaders" };
});

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta users messages get --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id} --select "internetMessageHeaders"

Important

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

requestParameters := &graphusers.ItemMessageItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Select: [] string {"internetMessageHeaders"},
}
configuration := &graphusers.ItemMessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
messages, err := graphClient.Me().Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").Get(context.Background(), configuration)

Important

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);

Message result = graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"internetMessageHeaders"};
});

Important

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);

let message = await client.api('/me/messages/AAMkAGVmMDEz/')
	.version('beta')
	.select('internetMessageHeaders')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Users\Item\Messages\Item\MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestConfiguration = new MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = MessageItemRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->select = ["internetMessageHeaders"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId -Property "internetMessageHeaders"

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.users.item.messages.item.message_item_request_builder import MessageItemRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = MessageItemRequestBuilder.MessageItemRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		select = ["internetMessageHeaders"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

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 number of Internet message headers in the response object has been reduced for brevity.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038')/messages(internetMessageHeaders)/$entity",
  "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.eventMessageRequest",
  "@odata.etag":"W/\"CwAAABYAAAAiIsqMbYjsT5e/T7KzowPTAAAa/qUB\"",
  "id":"AAMkAGVmMDEz",
  "internetMessageHeaders":[
    {
      "name":"Content-Type",
      "value":"application/ms-tnef"
    },
    {
      "name":"Content-Transfer-Encoding",
      "value":"binary"
    },
    {
      "name":"Subject",
      "value":"Cloud and Mobile Working Group"
    },
    {
      "name":"x-custom-header-group-name",
      "value":"Washington"
    },
    {
      "name":"x-custom-header-group-id",
      "value":"WA001"
    }
  ]
}

Example 5: Get MIME content

Request

The fifth example gets the MIME content of a message in the signed-in user's mailbox.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1/$value


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Me.Messages["{message-id}"].Content.GetAsync();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.



mgc-beta users messages content get --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id}

Important

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 $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Me().Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").Value().Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

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);

graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").content().get();

Important

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);

let stream = await client.api('/me/messages/4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1/$value')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->content()->get()->wait();

Important

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserMessageContent -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId -OutFile $outFileId

Important

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_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').content.get()

Important

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. The MIME content begins with the MIME-Version header.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/plain

Received: from contoso.com (10.194.241.197) by
contoso.com (10.194.241.197) with Microsoft
SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2,
cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P256) id 15.1.1374.0 via Mailbox
Transport; Mon, 4 Sep 2017 03:00:08 -0700
Received: from contoso.com (10.194.241.197) by
contoso.com (10.194.241.197) with Microsoft
SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2,
cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P256) id 15.1.1374.0; Mon, 4 Sep
2017 03:00:07 -0700
Received: from contoso.com
(fe80::5bf:5059:4ca0:5017) by contoso.com
(fe80::5bf:5059:4ca0:5017%12) with mapi id 15.01.1374.000; Mon, 4 Sep 2017
03:00:01 -0700
From: Administrator <[email protected]>
To: Administrator <[email protected]>
Subject: This email has attachment.
Thread-Topic: This email has attachment.
Thread-Index: AQHTJWSHSywMzSz8o0OJud48nG50GQ==
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0000
Message-ID:
                <[email protected]>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Internal
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthMechanism: 04
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource:
                contoso.com
X-MS-Has-Attach: yes
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Network-Message-Id:
                0ffdb402-ec03-42c8-5d32-08d4f37bb517
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: -1
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-RecordReviewCfmType: 0

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
                boundary="_004_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_"

--_004_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
                boundary="_000_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_"

--_000_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

The attachment is an email.

--_000_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-=
1">
<style type=3D"text/css" style=3D"display:none;"><!-- P {margin-top:0;margi=
n-bottom:0;} --></style>
</head>
<body dir=3D"ltr">
<div id=3D"divtagdefaultwrapper" style=3D"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font=
-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir=3D"ltr">
<p>The attachment is an email.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

--_000_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_--

--_004_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Attachment email.eml"
Content-Description: Attachment email.eml
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Attachment email.eml"; size=408;
                creation-date="Mon, 04 Sep 2017 09:59:43 GMT";
                modification-date="Mon, 04 Sep 2017 09:59:43 GMT"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

RnJvbToJQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciA8YWRtaW5AdGVuYW50LUVYSEItMTQ3MS5jb20+DQpTZW50OglN
b25kYXksIFNlcHRlbWJlciA0LCAyMDE3IDM6MjYgUE0NClRvOglTcml2YXJkaGFuIEhlYmJhcg0K
U3ViamVjdDoJQXR0YWNobWVudCBlbWFpbA0KDQpJIHdpbGwgYXR0YWNoIHRoaXMgZW1haWwgdG8g
YW5vdGhlciBtYWlsLg0K

--_004_4aade2547798441eab5188a7a2436bc1contoso_--

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Example 3: Get message body in text format

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HTTP request

Optional query parameters

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Get a specific message

Request

Response

Example 2: Get all mentions in a specific message

Request

Response

Example 3: Get message body in text format

Request

Response

Example 4: Get Internet message headers

Request

Response

Example 5: Get MIME content

Request

Response

Related content

Feedback

Additional resources