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Can't read nested email attachment

Open buzzjuh opened this issue 10 months ago • 0 comments

Describe the bug

My email message has a attachment which is also an email. The SDK sees this attachment as FileAttachment. With the contentType I can detect that the attachment is in fact an email (message/rfc822). But I don't have the possibility to retrieve this messages with it's own attachments. I tried the following with the id of the attachment but it seems it returns the original email and not the email as attachment even though the id of the original email and the id of the email attachment differ:

graphClient.users().byUserId(username).messages().byMessageId(attachment.id).get()

Apparently this situation occurs when attaching another email as attachment with the Oulook desktop application. When I do this in Gmail the attached emails are shown as ItemAttachment.

Expected behavior

Well I first expected that an email attachment would be an ItemAttachment type instead of a FileAttachment. Second I expected that: graphClient.users().byUserId(username).messages().byMessageId(attachment.id).get() would return the email attachment instead of the original email.

How to reproduce

In the Outlook desktop application create an email which has another email as attachment (EML format). The email as attachment also has an attachment. Try to retrieve all (nested) attachments from the original email using:

graphClient.users().byUserId(username).messages().byMessageId(mailId).attachments().get().value?.forEach { attachment ->
 if (attachment is ItemAttachment) {
...
}
 else if (attachment.contentType == "message/rfc822") {
val message = getUser().messages().byMessageId(attachment.id).get()
// handle nested emails
}
else if (attachment is FileAttachment) {
}
}

SDK Version

6.34.0

Latest version known to work for scenario above?

No response

Known Workarounds

No response

Debug output

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### Configuration

macOS Sequoia
M4 Max

### Other information

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buzzjuh avatar Apr 22 '25 08:04 buzzjuh