# `bird email inbound-messages get`

## Usage

```bash
bird email inbound-messages get <inbound-message-id> [flags]
```

## Description

Fetch one received email's parsed metadata: addresses, subject, threading headers, authentication results, and the attachment manifest. Use email_inbound_messages_body for the body, email_inbound_messages_raw for the original MIME, and email_inbound_messages_attachment for attachment bytes.

## Examples

```bash
bird email inbound-messages get <id>
bird email inbound-messages get <id> -f text
# find an id to pass
bird email inbound-messages list
```

## Options

| Name                | Description                                      |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| `--response-schema` | Print the fields this command returns, then exit |

## Related

| Name                                                                                                | Description                             |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| [`bird email inbound-messages attachment`](/docs/cli/reference/email-inbound-messages-attachment)   | Download a received email's attachment  |
| [`bird email inbound-messages attachments`](/docs/cli/reference/email-inbound-messages-attachments) | List a received email's attachments     |
| [`bird email inbound-messages body`](/docs/cli/reference/email-inbound-messages-body)               | Get a received email's body             |
| [`bird email inbound-messages list`](/docs/cli/reference/email-inbound-messages-list)               | List received emails                    |
| [`bird email inbound-messages raw`](/docs/cli/reference/email-inbound-messages-raw)                 | Download a received email's raw content |