Create emailMethod

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Set a user's emailAuthenticationMethod object. Email authentication is a self-service password reset method. A user may only have one email authentication method.

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)	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

For delegated scenarios where an admin is acting on another user, the administrator needs at least the Authentication Administrator or Privileged Authentication Administrator Microsoft Entra role.

Users cannot add an email authentication method to their own account.

HTTP request

Add an email authentication method to another user's account.

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

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the emailAuthenticationMethod object with the desired email address.

The following table lists the properties that are required when you create the emailAuthenticationMethod.

Property	Type	Description
emailAddress	String	Email address.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a new emailAuthenticationMethod object in the response body.

Examples

Request

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/emailMethods
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "emailAddress": "kim@contoso.com"
}

C#

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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod
{
	EmailAddress = "kim@contoso.com",
};

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

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 create --user-id {user-id} --body '{\
  "emailAddress": "kim@contoso.com"\
}\
'

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

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)


requestBody := graphmodels.NewEmailAuthenticationMethod()
emailAddress := "kim@contoso.com"
requestBody.SetEmailAddress(&emailAddress) 

emailMethods, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().EmailMethods().Post(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);

EmailAuthenticationMethod emailAuthenticationMethod = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
emailAuthenticationMethod.setEmailAddress("kim@contoso.com");
EmailAuthenticationMethod result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().emailMethods().post(emailAuthenticationMethod);

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 emailAuthenticationMethod = {
  emailAddress: 'kim@contoso.com'
};

await client.api('/users/kim@contoso.com/authentication/emailMethods')
	.post(emailAuthenticationMethod);

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\EmailAuthenticationMethod;


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

$requestBody = new EmailAuthenticationMethod();
$requestBody->setEmailAddress('kim@contoso.com');

$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->emailMethods()->post($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.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	emailAddress = "kim@contoso.com"
}

New-MgUserAuthenticationEmailMethod -UserId $userId -BodyParameter $params

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
from msgraph.generated.models.email_authentication_method import EmailAuthenticationMethod

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)

request_body = EmailAuthenticationMethod(
	email_address = "kim@contoso.com",
)

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.email_methods.post(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/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

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