EmailMessage

Represents an email in Salesforce.

Supported Calls

create(), delete(), describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), undelete(), update(), upsert()

Special Access Rules

EmailMessage is only available for organizations that use Email-to-Case or Enhanced Email, which is automatically enabled for most customers.

Customer Portal users have read access to EmailMessage if the value for the ParentID field is associated with a case. Otherwise, access is determined by sharing access of the associated task.

update() is supported only on records whose Status is Draft. When a record’s Status is not Draft, update() is supported only for the IsExternallyVisible field and custom fields.

Fields

Field	Details
ActivityId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description ID of the activity that is associated with the email. Usually represents an open task that is created for the case owner when a new unread email message is received.
BccAddress	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description A string array of email addresses for recipients who were sent a blind carbon copy of the email message. This field should include only email addresses that are not associated with Contact, Lead, or User records in Salesforce. If the recipient is a contact, lead, or user, add their ID to the BccIds field instead of adding their email address to the BccAddress field. Then the email message is automatically associated with the contact, lead, or user.
BccIds	Type JunctionIdList Properties Create, Update Description A string array of IDs for contacts, leads, and users who were sent a blind carbon copy of the email message. Each ID is linked to an EmailMessageRelation record, which represents the relationship between an email message and a Contact, Lead, or User record. Adding a JunctionIdList field name to the fieldsToNull property deletes all related junction records. This action can’t be undone. Warning
CcAddress	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Sort, Update Description A string array of email addresses for recipients who were sent a carbon copy of the email message. This field should include only email addresses that are not associated with Contact, Lead, or User records in Salesforce. If the recipient is a contact, lead, or user, add their ID to the CcIds field instead of adding their email address to the CcAddress field. Then the email message is automatically associated with the contact, lead, or user.
CcIds	Type JunctionIdList Properties Create, Update Description A string array of IDs for contacts, leads, and users who were sent a carbon copy of the email message. Each ID is linked to an EmailMessageRelation record, which represents the relationship between an email message and a Contact, Lead, or User record. Adding a JunctionIdList field name to the fieldsToNull property deletes all related junction records. This action can’t be undone. Warning
ContentDocumentIds	Type JunctionIdList Properties Create, Update Description A string array of IDs for content documents, such as files and attachments, that are associated with an email. Each ID is linked to a ContentDocumentLink record, which represents the relationship between an email message and a content document record. Adding a JunctionIdList field name to the fieldsToNull property deletes all related junction records. This action can’t be undone. Warning
FromAddress	Type email Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Update Description The address that originated the email.
FromName	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Update Description The sender’s name.
HasAttachment	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter Description Indicates whether the email was sent with an attachment (`true`) or not (`false`).
Headers	Type textarea Properties Create, Nillable, Update Description The Internet message headers of the incoming email. Used for debugging and tracing purposes. Does not apply to outgoing emails.
HtmlBody	Type textarea Properties Create, Nillable, Update Description The body of the email in HTML format.
Incoming	Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter Description Indicates whether the email was received (`true`) or sent (`false`).
IsDeleted	Type boolean Properties Defaulted on create, Filter Description Indicates whether the object has been moved to the Recycle Bin (`true`) or not (`false`). Label is Deleted.
IsExternallyVisible	Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Update Description If the community case feed is enabled, IsExternallyVisible controls the external visibility of emails in communities. When IsExternallyVisible is set to true—its default value—email messages are visible to external users in the case feed. Only emails with the ParentId field populated are available to be externally visible in communities. This field can’t be updated if the email’s Status is set to `Draft`.
MessageDate	Type dateTime Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Update Description The date the email was created.
MessageIdentifier	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The ID of the email message.
ParentId	Type ID Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description ID of the case that’s associated with the email.
RelatedToId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The RelatedToId represents nonhuman objects such as accounts, opportunities, campaigns, cases, or custom objects. RelatedToIds are polymorphic. Polymorphic means a RelatedToId is equivalent to the ID of a related object.
ReplyToEmailMessageId	Type reference Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description ID of the inbound or outbound EmailMessage the current EmailMessage is a reply to. It’s not possible to reply to a message whose Status is `Draft`.
Status	Type picklist Properties Create, Filter, Restricted picklist, Update Description Read only. The status of the email. For example, `New`, `Draft`, `Unread`, `Replied`, or `Sent`.
Subject	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Update Description The subject line of the email.
ThreadIdentifier	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort, Update Description The ID of the email thread the email message belongs to.
TextBody	Type textarea Properties Create, Nillable, Update Description The body of the email, in plain text format.
ToAddress	Type string Properties Create, Filter, Nillable, Update Description A string array of email addresses for recipients who were sent the email message. This field should include only email addresses that are not associated with Contact, Lead, or User records in Salesforce. If the recipient is a contact, lead, or user, add their ID to the ToIds field instead of adding their email address to the ToAddress field. Then the email message is automatically associated with the contact, lead, or user.
ToIds	Type JunctionIdList Properties Create, Update Description A string array of IDs for contacts, leads, and users who were sent the email message. Each ID is linked to an EmailMessageRelation record, which represents the relationship between an email message and a Contact, Lead, or User record. Adding a JunctionIdList field name to the fieldsToNull property deletes all related junction records. This action can’t be undone. Warning

Usage

If your organization uses Email-to-Case, a case is created when an email is sent to one of your company’s addresses. The email, which is related to the case by the ParentID field, is stored as an EmailMessage record. When users view the email, they see the EmailMessage record.

If your organization uses Enhanced Email, each email is stored as an EmailMessage record and a Task record. When users view an email, they see the EmailMessage record.

Object Reference for Salesforce and Force.com

EmailMessage

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