List messages

• 1/11/2019
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Get all the messages in the signed-in user's mailbox, or those messages in a specified folder in the mailbox.

Permissions

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

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

Request body

Do not 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

Here is an example of the request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{id}/messages

Response

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here may be truncated for brevity. All of the properties will be returned from an actual call.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 317

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