sendsend.email
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Retrieve a received email

GET/v1/received-emails/{id}

Includes the text and HTML bodies, the headers and the attachment list. The content comes from the sender, so treat the HTML as untrusted: never render it in your own page without sandboxing.

Required scope: inbound:manage

Parameters

NameInDescription
idrequiredpathThe received email id.

Example

curl -X GET 'https://api.sendsend.email/v1/received-emails/ID' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENDSEND_API_KEY"

Response 200

{
  "id": "rcv_Qw3…",
  "object": "received_email",
  "from": "Maria <maria@example.org>",
  "to": [
    "support@k3x9m2qf7a.inbound.sendsend.email"
  ],
  "cc": [],
  "reply_to": null,
  "subject": "Question about my order",
  "message_id": "<abc@example.org>",
  "in_reply_to": null,
  "spam": false,
  "size": 4821,
  "created_at": "2026-10-06T15:04:05.000Z",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "id": "0",
      "filename": "receipt.pdf",
      "content_type": "application/pdf",
      "size": 20480,
      "content_id": null,
      "inline": false,
      "available": true
    }
  ],
  "text": "Hello…",
  "html": "<p>Hello…</p>",
  "headers": {
    "subject": "Question about my order"
  }
}

Errors

StatusCodeWhen
404not_foundNo such resource in this project.
401unauthorizedThe API key is missing, invalid or revoked.
403forbiddenThe key does not have the scope this endpoint needs.

Every error has the same shape. See Errors.