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microsoft-graph-api
baant
baant

Reputation: 173

Get new emails with microsoft graph

I am trying to get only new emails with microsoft graph. Iam doing this by checking date like

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?$filter=receivedDateTime+gt+2016-06-06T08:08:08Z

Is there any possibility to build query to get new messages but base on id instead of receivedDateTime? Something like: get messeges until you find id=....?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2657

Answers (2)

piisexactly3
piisexactly3

Reputation: 779

I think the delta query solution is pretty good (as suggested in a different answer). However, for my purposes, there were two major drawbacks: 1) it's in preview (beta) right now, so it makes it less than ideal for production code and 2) it doesn't seem to support the monitoring of all messages, just those in a particular folder.

I actually prefer the solution you're working with. The timestamp in the header of the response can be used to reset the time field in you query, so that if you have "receivedDateTime gt 12:00:00" and get back the server time of 12:01:00 for your request, you can use "receivedDateTime gt 12:01:00" next time.

Upvotes: 1

Marc LaFleur
Marc LaFleur

Reputation: 33094

The scenario you're looking for is specifically what the new Delta query is designed to support. Deltas allow you to retrieve changes to a given folder (i.e. Inbox) since you last polled that folder. Message IDs not static or consecutive so they're not a suitable property for determining new vs. old messages.

Upvotes: 1

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