message: send

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Send an existing draft message.

The draft message can be a new message draft, reply draft, reply-all draft, or a forward draft.

This method saves the message in the Sent Items folder.

Alternatively, send a new message in a single operation.

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.Send	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Mail.Send	Not available.
Application	Mail.Send	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /me/messages/{id}/send
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/send

Request headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Length	number	0. Required.

Request body

Since this method sends an already existing draft message, specifying a request body is not necessary.

Response

If successful, this method returns 202 Accepted response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.

Examples

Example 1: Send an existing draft message

The following example shows how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages/{id}/send

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
await graphClient.Me.Messages["{message-id}"].Send.PostAsync();

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

CLI

mgc users messages send post --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-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
graphClient.Me().Messages().ByMessageId("message-id").Send().Post(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);

graphClient.me().messages().byMessageId("{message-id}").send().post();

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);

await client.api('/me/messages/{id}/send')
	.post();

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);


$graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->send()->post()->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.
Send-MgUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId

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

await graph_client.me.messages.by_message_id('message-id').send.post()

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.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted