not able to retrieve 'reference' attachments from email using graph api

Question

retrieving email message expanding attachments doesn't retrieve referenceattachments (that we upload using upload & share from onedrive) If an email contains only reference attachments the list would return empty
Tried with this request
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/attachments
I tried following request as well
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}?$expand=attachments
The above request gets all the attachments however reference attachments are not included in the result. It gets fileAttachments successfully.

Answer 1

Hi @Nouman Farooq ,

Hope you are doing well,

I was able to retrieve reference attachments from email using Graph API, when we send email with reference attachment from **outlook client **.
Currently this feature is not supported with outlook web.

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Answer 2

Hi @RajeshKumarMSFT thanks for update on this
This used to work on outlook web as well but at that time reference attachments were not added as inline attachment link.