Get emailAuthenticationMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve a user's single email authentication method object.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permissions acting on self

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.

Permissions acting on other users

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.Read.All, UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least one of the following Microsoft Entra roles.

• Global Reader
• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

HTTP request

Get details of your own email authentication method.

GET /me/authentication/emailMethods/{id}

Get details of your own or another user's email authentication method.

GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/emailMethods/{id}

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	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 the requested emailAuthenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/authentication/emailMethods/3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f

C#

// 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
var result = await graphClient.Me.Authentication.EmailMethods["{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}"].GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users authentication email-methods get --user-id {user-id} --email-authentication-method-id {emailAuthenticationMethod-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



emailMethods, err := graphClient.Me().Authentication().EmailMethods().ByEmailAuthenticationMethodId("emailAuthenticationMethod-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

EmailAuthenticationMethod result = graphClient.me().authentication().emailMethods().byEmailAuthenticationMethodId("{emailAuthenticationMethod-id}").get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let emailAuthenticationMethod = await client.api('/me/authentication/emailMethods/3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->authentication()->emailMethods()->byEmailAuthenticationMethodId('emailAuthenticationMethod-id')->get()->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgUserAuthenticationEmailMethod -UserId $userId -EmailAuthenticationMethodId $emailAuthenticationMethodId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.me.authentication.email_methods.by_email_authentication_method_id('emailAuthenticationMethod-id').get()

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.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "value": {
      "id": "3ddfcfc8-9383-446f-83cc-3ab9be4be18f",
      "emailAddress": "Kim@contoso.com"
  }
}