mailFolder: move

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2024-04-05

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Move a mail folder and its contents to another mail folder.

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

HTTP request

POST /me/mailFolders/{id}/move
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/move

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	`Bearer {token}`. Required.
Content-Type	`application/json`. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
destinationId	String	The folder ID, or a well-known folder name. For a list of supported well-known folder names, see mailFolder resource type.

Response

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

Example

Here's an example of how to call this API.

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/mailFolders/{id}/move
Content-type: application/json

{
  "destinationId": "destinationId-value"
}


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

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Me.MailFolders.Item.Move;

var requestBody = new MovePostRequestBody
{
	DestinationId = "destinationId-value",
};

// 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}"].Move.PostAsync(requestBody);

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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



mgc-beta users mail-folders move post --user-id {user-id} --mail-folder-id {mailFolder-id} --body '{\
  "destinationId": "destinationId-value"\
}\
'

Important

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



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

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

requestBody := graphusers.NewItemMovePostRequestBody()
destinationId := "destinationId-value"
requestBody.SetDestinationId(&destinationId) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
move, err := graphClient.Me().MailFolders().ByMailFolderId("mailFolder-id").Move().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

Important

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


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.beta.users.item.mailfolders.item.move.MovePostRequestBody movePostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.beta.users.item.mailfolders.item.move.MovePostRequestBody();
movePostRequestBody.setDestinationId("destinationId-value");
var result = graphClient.me().mailFolders().byMailFolderId("{mailFolder-id}").move().post(movePostRequestBody);

Important

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


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const mailFolder = {
  destinationId: 'destinationId-value'
};

await client.api('/me/mailFolders/{id}/move')
	.version('beta')
	.post(mailFolder);

Important

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


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Users\Item\MailFolders\Item\Move\MovePostRequestBody;


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

$requestBody = new MovePostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setDestinationId('destinationId-value');

$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->mailFolders()->byMailFolderId('mailFolder-id')->move()->post($requestBody)->wait();

Important

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


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail

$params = @{
	destinationId = "destinationId-value"
}

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Move-MgBetaUserMailFolder -UserId $userId -MailFolderId $mailFolderId -BodyParameter $params

Important

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


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.users.item.mailfolders.item.move.move_post_request_body import MovePostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = MovePostRequestBody(
	destination_id = "destinationId-value",
)

result = await graph_client.me.mail_folders.by_mail_folder_id('mailFolder-id').move.post(request_body)

Important

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

{
  "displayName": "displayName-value",
  "parentFolderId": "parentFolderId-value",
  "childFolderCount": 99,
  "unreadItemCount": 99,
  "totalItemCount": 99,
  "id": "id-value"
}

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