Search mail with Graph API using filter Email and Subject

Question

Hi All,

I am trying to search a mailbox by passing email ID and subject but unable to get the proper URL, can somebody please help here with the proper URL

Answer 1

Hi @ASM Automation

Yes, you can filter messages by date, subject and sender.

Example:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$filter=subject eq '{subject}' and sender/emailAddress/address eq '{sender email address}' and sentDateTime ge 2023-05-17T07:28:08Z

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

I am trying to search a mailbox by passing email ID and subject

Depends which Email Id are you trying to search with ? the only Id that would be searchable is the internetmessageId if you have the GraphId/itemid you don't need to search just try a get using the identifier.

To search using the internetmessageId you can use

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$filter=internetMessageId eq '<******@blah1234.onmicrosoft.com>'

There's actually 3 different ways of searching for messages a Filter, Search and the Graph Search endpoint so for Subject you can use either a KQL query

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$search="subject:\"Fwd: Subject string to search\""

or and exact filter match

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$filter=subject eq 'Subject to search'

or startswith

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$filter=startsWith(subject,'test')

or you can also use the search API https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/search-concept-messages