List messages

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get all the messages in the specified user's mailbox, or those messages in a specified folder in the mailbox.

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)	Mail.ReadBasic	Mail.ReadWrite, Mail.Read
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Mail.ReadBasic	Mail.ReadWrite, Mail.Read
Application	Mail.ReadBasic.All	Mail.ReadWrite, Mail.Read

HTTP request

GET /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages

Optional query parameters

This method supports 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 collection of Message objects in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/AAMkAGVmMDEzMTM4LTZmYWUtNDdkNC1hMDZiLTU1OGY5OTZhYmY4OAAuAAAAAAAiQ8W967B7TKBjgx9rVEURAQAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAAAAFNAAA=/messages

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.MailFolders["{mailFolder-id}"].Messages.GetAsync();

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

CLI

mgc users mail-folders messages list --user-id {user-id} --mail-folder-id {mailFolder-id}

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
messages, err := graphClient.Me().MailFolders().ByMailFolderId("mailFolder-id").Messages().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);

MessageCollectionResponse result = graphClient.me().mailFolders().byMailFolderId("{mailFolder-id}").messages().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 messages = await client.api('/me/mailFolders/AAMkAGVmMDEzMTM4LTZmYWUtNDdkNC1hMDZiLTU1OGY5OTZhYmY4OAAuAAAAAAAiQ8W967B7TKBjgx9rVEURAQAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAAAAFNAAA=/messages')
	.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()->mailFolders()->byMailFolderId('mailFolder-id')->messages()->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.Mail

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgUserMailFolderMessage -UserId $userId -MailFolderId $mailFolderId

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.me.mail_folders.by_mail_folder_id('mailFolder-id').messages.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": [
    {
      "receivedDateTime": "2018-02-13T03:53:55Z",
      "sentDateTime": "2018-02-13T03:53:55Z",
      "hasAttachments": true,
      "subject": "MyAnalytics | Your past week",
      "body": {
        "contentType": "html",
        "content": "<html lang=\"en\">\r\n<head></head>\r\n<body> </body>\r\n</html>\r\n"
      },
      "bodyPreview": "February 4-10, 2018\r\n\r\n\r\nHi Megan Bowen,\r\n\r\nWe've got your highlights from last week\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nYour time\r\n\r\n\r\nEmail hours\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n0 hrs\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMeeting hours\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n12 hrs\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFocus hours\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n30 hrs\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGoals keep you motivated. Set them"
    }
  ]
}