Generating a link to an "Advanced Query Search"

Question

Hello,

I asked this in the outlook forum first, but apparently it is not possible without using Graph API, so I was redirected here.

I would like to be able to generate a link to a search, so for instance in your inbox (https://outlook.office.com/mail/), if you want to search for "test", I could do that directly by just accessing something like https://outlook.office.com/mail/?query=test.

Now this is done by an ajax POST request (which is a bit weird to be honest). I have searched around a lot but could not find anything helpful.

Also: how do you generate deeplinks? I can get the "Message-Id" field, but that is not enough to generate a direct link to an email, because your ID is constructed different. If I go to Three dots -> view -> Open in new window, the URL will be something like https://outlook.office.com/mail/id/AAasdfasdfasQkADIwOGI0YLTdhNjgtNDQg3MWasdfasdfgAQAJFCmCnasdfadsfgysaLw0ZQ%3D. How do I generate this ID? (I am using IMAP, so I can use the msgid)

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @Thomas Bergheim , Microsoft Graph API supports getting messages from logged in user mailboxes by requesting GET /me/messages or
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages endpoint. Also supports optional query parameters.

Here is the documentation for your reference.

After the request, the return value contains the message id and weblink.

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