Namespace: microsoft.graph
Permanently delete a message and place it in the purges folder in the dumpster in the user's mailbox. Email clients such as outlook or outlook on the web can't access permanently deleted items. Unless there's a hold set on the mailbox, the items are permanently deleted after a set period of time.
For more information about item retention, see Configure deleted item retention and recoverable items quotas.
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 /users/{usersId}/messages/{messageId}/permanentDelete
POST /users/{usersId}/mailFolders/{mailFolderId}/messages/{messageId}/permanentDelete
Request body
Don't supply a request body for this method.
Response
If successful, this action returns a 204 No Content response code.
Examples
Request
The following example shows a request.
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/b4c80c57-5c59-4a3d-912a-a83985988b82/messages/AAsdkjasdlknca=/permanentDelete
// 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.Users["{user-id}"].Messages["{message-id}"].PermanentDelete.PostAsync();
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"
//other-imports
)
// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").PermanentDelete().Post(context.Background(), 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);
graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").permanentDelete().post();
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);
await client.api('/users/b4c80c57-5c59-4a3d-912a-a83985988b82/messages/AAsdkjasdlknca=/permanentDelete')
.post();
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;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->permanentDelete()->post()->wait();
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
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').messages.by_message_id('message-id').permanent_delete.post()
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.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content