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.
Delete a message in the specified user's mailbox, or delete a relationship of the message.
For example, you can delete a specific @-mention of the specified user in the message.
Note You may not be able to delete items in the recoverable items deletions folder (represented by the well-known folder name recoverableitemsdeletions). See Deleted item retention and Clean up deleted items for more information.
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
To delete the specified message:
DELETE /me/messages/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}
DELETE /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}
To delete a specific mention in a message:
DELETE /me/messages/{id}/mentions/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/messages/{id}/mentions/{id}
DELETE /me/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/mentions/{id}
DELETE /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/mailFolders/{id}/messages/{id}/mentions/{id}
Request body
Don't supply a request body for this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns 204 No Content response code. It doesn't return anything in the response body.
Example
Request 1
The first example deletes the specified message.
DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/{id}
// 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}"].DeleteAsync();
mgc-beta users messages delete --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id}
// 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"
//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").Delete(context.Background(), nil)
// 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}").delete();
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
await client.api('/me/messages/{id}')
.version('beta')
.delete();
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->delete()->wait();
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail
# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Remove-MgBetaUserMessage -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta 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').delete()
Response 1
The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Request 2
The next example deletes a certain mention in the specified message.
DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/messages/{id}/mentions/{id}
// 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}"].Mentions["{mention-id}"].DeleteAsync();
mgc-beta users messages mentions delete --user-id {user-id} --message-id {message-id} --mention-id {mention-id}
// 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"
//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").Mentions().ByMentionId("mention-id").Delete(context.Background(), nil)
// 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}").mentions().byMentionId("{mention-id}").delete();
const options = {
authProvider,
};
const client = Client.init(options);
await client.api('/me/messages/{id}/mentions/{id}')
.version('beta')
.delete();
<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);
$graphServiceClient->me()->messages()->byMessageId('message-id')->mentions()->byMentionId('mention-id')->delete()->wait();
Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.Mail
# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Remove-MgBetaUserMessageMention -UserId $userId -MessageId $messageId -MentionId $mentionId
# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta 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').mentions.by_mention_id('mention-id').delete()
Response 2
The following example shows the response.
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content