Retirement of the SharePoint SendEmail API

[ndrinovsky]

What version of PnPjs library you are using

4.x

Minor Version Number

9

Target environment

All

Additional environment details

Node v18, SPFx 1.20, React V17

Question/Request

Stumbled across this blog post while debugging a SPFx application: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/retirement-of-the-sharepoint-sendemail-api/

I wasn't able to find any comments addressing this, but the _api/SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail is to be discontinued this October.
Will the @pnp/sp/utilities SendEmail method be retired as well, or should we default to Graph for sending emails?

[juliemturner]

I thought we had already marked it deprecated but apparently, we didn't... yes please start using Graph for sending emails.

[mgordic]

Hi @juliemturner ,

Could you please guide me on alternative approaches for sending emails using Microsoft Graph API?

Previously, I used SPUtility.SendEmail to send email notifications to users. However, I understand that Graph API requires either a signed-in user or Application Permissions to send emails from a technical user account with an assigned license.

Are there any other recommended alternatives for this approach? I’d appreciate any insights you can share.

Thank you in advance! 😊

[bcameron1231]

Hi @juliemturner ,

Could you please guide me on alternative approaches for sending emails using Microsoft Graph API?

Previously, I used SPUtility.SendEmail to send email notifications to users. However, I understand that Graph API requires either a signed-in user or Application Permissions to send emails from a technical user account with an assigned license.

Are there any other recommended alternatives for this approach? I’d appreciate any insights you can share.

Thank you in advance! 😊

Please see our docs.
https://pnp.github.io/pnpjs/graph/mail-messages/#send-message

You will need to grant the SPFx Application Permission to Microsoft Graph Mail. This can be done with the webApiPermissionRequests in your package-solution.json, or by updating it in Azure. I won't go into much detail here, but there are tons of resources online about how to set up the permissions for SPFx.

[juliemturner]

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