Update eventMessage

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Update the properties of an eventMessage 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.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Mail.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Mail.ReadWrite
Application	Mail.ReadWrite

HTTP request

PATCH /me/messages/{id}
PATCH /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}

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

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	string	Nature of the data in the body of an entity. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply the values for relevant fields that should be updated. Existing properties that are not included in the request body will maintain their previous values or be recalculated based on changes to other property values. For best performance you shouldn't include existing values that haven't changed. Writable/Updatable properties are

Property	Type	Description
categories	String	The categories associated with the message.
importance	String	The importance of the message. The possible values are: Low, Normal, High.
isDeliveryReceiptRequested	Boolean	Indicates whether a read receipt is requested for the message.
isRead	Boolean	Indicates whether the message has been read.
isReadReceiptRequested	Boolean	Indicates whether a read receipt is requested for the message.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and updated eventMessage object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

PATCH https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages/{id}
Content-type: application/json

{
  "isRead": true,
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Message
{
	IsRead = true,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Messages["{message-id}"].PatchAsync(requestBody);

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

CLI

mgc users messages patch --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id} --body '{\
  "isRead": true,\
}\
'

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"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewMessage()
isRead := true
requestBody.SetIsRead(&isRead) 

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

Message message = new Message();
message.setIsRead(true);
Message result = graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").patch(message);

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);

const message = {
  isRead: true,
};

await client.api('/me/messages/{id}')
	.update(message);

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;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Message;


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

$requestBody = new Message();
$requestBody->setIsRead(true);

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->patch($requestBody)->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

$params = @{
	isRead = $true
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Update-MgUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId -BodyParameter $params

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
from msgraph.generated.models.message import Message
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Message(
	is_read = True,
)

result = await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').patch(request_body)

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

{
  "receivedDateTime": "datetime-value",
  "sentDateTime": "datetime-value",
  "hasAttachments": true,
  "subject": "subject-value",
  "body": {
    "contentType": "",
    "content": "content-value"
  },
  "bodyPreview": "bodyPreview-value",
  "meetingMessageType": "meetingMessageType-value"
}