Get user mailbox settings
Namespace: microsoft.graph
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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.
Get the user's mailboxSettings. You can view all mailbox settings, or get specific settings.
Users can set the following settings for their mailboxes through an Outlook client:
- automatic replies (notify people automatically upon receipt of their email)
- date format
- delegateMeetingMessageDeliveryOptions
- locale (language and country/region)
- time format
- time zone
- working hours
- user purpose
Users can set their preferred date and time formats using Outlook on the web. Users can choose one of the supported short date or short time formats. This GET
operation returns the format the user has chosen.
Users can set the time zone they prefer on any Outlook client, by choosing from the supported time zones that their administrator has set up for their mailbox server. The administrator can set up time zones in the Windows time zone format or Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) time zone (also known as Olson time zone) format. The Windows format is the default.
This GET
operation returns the user's preferred time zone in the format that the administrator has set up. If you want that time zone to be in a specific format (Windows or IANA), you can first update the preferred time zone in that format as a mailbox setting. Subsequently you will be able to get the time zone in that format. Alternatively, you can manage the format conversion separately in your app.
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) | MailboxSettings.Read | MailboxSettings.ReadWrite |
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) | MailboxSettings.Read | MailboxSettings.ReadWrite |
Application | MailboxSettings.Read | MailboxSettings.ReadWrite |
HTTP request
To get all the mailbox settings for a user:
GET /me/mailboxSettings
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings
To get specific settings - only the automatic replies settings, date format, locale, time format, time zone, working hours, or user's recipient or mailbox type (for example, user purpose):
GET /me/mailboxSettings/automaticRepliesSetting
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/automaticRepliesSetting
GET /me/mailboxSettings/dateFormat
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/dateFormat
GET /me/mailboxSettings/delegateMeetingMessageDeliveryOptions
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/delegateMeetingMessageDeliveryOptions
GET /me/mailboxSettings/language
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/language
GET /me/mailboxSettings/timeFormat
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/timeFormat
GET /me/mailboxSettings/timeZone
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/timeZone
GET /me/mailboxSettings/workingHours
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/workingHours
GET /me/mailboxSettings/userPurpose
GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings/userPurpose
Optional query parameters
This method supports some of the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.
Request headers
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
Authorization | string | Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization. |
Request body
Don't supply a request body for this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns a 200 OK
response code and one of the following requested objects in the response body:
- mailboxSettings object
- automaticRepliesSetting object
- string (for dateFormat)
- string (for delegateMeetingMessageDeliveryOptions)
- localeInfo object
- string (for timeFormat)
- string (for timeZone)
- workingHours
- userPurpose
Examples
Example 1: Get all mailbox settings of the signed-in user's mailbox
Get all the mailbox settings of the signed-in user's mailbox that include settings for automatic replies, date format, locale (language and country/region), time format, time zone, working hours, and user purpose.
Request
The following example shows a request.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/mailboxSettings
Response
The following is an example of the response that includes all mailbox settings of the signed-in user.
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/$metadata#Me/mailboxSettings",
"automaticRepliesSetting": {
"status": "Scheduled",
"externalAudience": "All",
"scheduledStartDateTime": {
"dateTime": "2016-03-14T07:00:00.0000000",
"timeZone": "UTC"
},
"scheduledEndDateTime": {
"dateTime": "2016-03-28T07:00:00.0000000",
"timeZone": "UTC"
},
"internalReplyMessage": "<html>\n<body>\n<p>I'm at our company's worldwide reunion and will respond to your message as soon as I return.<br>\n</p></body>\n</html>\n",
"externalReplyMessage": "<html>\n<body>\n<p>I'm at the Contoso worldwide reunion and will respond to your message as soon as I return.<br>\n</p></body>\n</html>\n"
},
"timeZone":"UTC",
"language":{
"locale":"en-US",
"displayName":"English (United States)"
},
"workingHours":{
"daysOfWeek":[
"monday",
"tuesday",
"wednesday",
"thursday",
"friday"
],
"startTime":"08:00:00.0000000",
"endTime":"17:00:00.0000000",
"timeZone":{
"name":"Pacific Standard Time"
}
},
"userPurpose": {
"value": "user"
},
"dateFormat": "MM/dd/yyyy",
"timeFormat": "hh:mm tt",
"delegateMeetingMessageDeliveryOptions": "sendToDelegateOnly"
}
Example 2: Get specifically the automatic replies settings of the signed-in user's mailbox
Request
The following example shows a request.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/mailboxSettings/automaticRepliesSetting
Response
The following is an example of the response that includes only the automatic replies settings.
Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#Me/mailboxSettings/automaticRepliesSetting",
"status": "alwaysEnabled",
"externalAudience": "None",
"scheduledStartDateTime": {
"dateTime": "2016-03-19T02:00:00.0000000",
"timeZone": "UTC"
},
"scheduledEndDateTime": {
"dateTime": "2016-03-20T02:00:00.0000000",
"timeZone": "UTC"
},
"internalReplyMessage": "<html>\n<body>\n<p>I'm at our company's worldwide reunion and will respond to your message as soon as I return.<br>\n</p></body>\n</html>\n",
"externalReplyMessage": "<html>\n<body>\n<p>I'm at the Contoso worldwide reunion and will respond to your message as soon as I return.<br>\n</p></body>\n</html>\n"
}
Example 3: Get specifically the working hour settings of the signed-in user's mailbox
Request
The following example shows a request.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/mailboxSettings/workingHours
Response
The following is an example of the response that includes only the working hours settings. Notice that the user's work hours are in a custom time zone.
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/$metadata#users('94447c6e-ea4c-494c-a9ed-d905e366c5cb')/mailboxSettings/workingHours",
"daysOfWeek":[
"monday",
"tuesday",
"wednesday",
"thursday",
"friday",
"saturday"
],
"startTime":"09:00:00.0000000",
"endTime":"18:30:00.0000000",
"timeZone":{
"@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.customTimeZone",
"bias":-200,
"name":"Customized Time Zone",
"standardOffset":{
"time":"02:00:00.0000000",
"dayOccurrence":4,
"dayOfWeek":"sunday",
"month":5,
"year":0
},
"daylightOffset":{
"daylightBias":-100,
"time":"02:00:00.0000000",
"dayOccurrence":2,
"dayOfWeek":"sunday",
"month":10,
"year":0
}
}
}
Example 4: Get specifically the user purpose settings of the signed-in user's mailbox
Request
The following example shows a request.
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/mailboxSettings/userPurpose
Response
The following is an example of the response that includes only the user purpose settings.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
{
"@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('622eaaff-0683-4862-9de4-f2ec83c2bd98')/mailboxSettings/userPurpose",
"value": "user"
}