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Read an Outlook.com email

Automatically read an Outlook.com email on outlook.live.com. Read one Outlook.com (outlook.live.com) message's details by its id (as returned by list_emails): subject, sender, recipient, date shown on the message, and body text. Opens the message in the given folder's reading pane, so an unread message becomes read. An unknown folder or an id that is not in the folder fails with an error saying so. A signed-out browser fails with a signed-out error asking to sign in to outlook.live.com.

Input

id required

Message id from list_emails (the row's id attribute)

folder optional

Folder the message lives in, as shown in the folder list

Default: "Inbox"

Output

id required
to required
body required
date required
sender required
subject required

FAQ

Read one Outlook.com (outlook.live.com) message's details by its id (as returned by list_emails): subject, sender, recipient, date shown on the message, and body text. Opens the message in the given folder's reading pane, so an unread message becomes read. An unknown folder or an id that is not in the folder fails with an error saying so. A signed-out browser fails with a signed-out error asking to sign in to outlook.live.com.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/outlook.live.com/get_email, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/outlook.live.com/get_email
You do not need one. "Read an Outlook.com email" drives the real outlook.live.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not outlook.live.com offers an API for this.
Required: id. Optional: folder.
It returns id, to, body, date, sender, subject.
Yes. It acts as you on outlook.live.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the outlook.live.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It only reads. It looks things up on outlook.live.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/outlook.live.com/get_email, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/outlook.live.com/get_email
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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