Get a received email
GET
/v1/email/inbound-messages/{inbound_message_id}
bird email inbound-messages get <inbound-message-id>curl -X GET "https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/inbound-messages/{inbound_message_id}" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"Returns the parsed metadata for a received email:
- Addresses.
- Subject.
- Threading headers.
- Authentication results.
- The attachment manifest.
Content is fetched separately:
- Get the parsed body from Get a received email's body.
- Get the original MIME from Get a received email's raw content.
- Get attachment bytes from Get a received email's attachment.
Received emails are retained for 30 days. An unknown or expired message returns 404.
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id
string
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Received message ID.
from
object
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Sender address parsed from the message.
Afficher les attributs enfants
from.email
string
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Email address.
from.name
string
Display name shown alongside the address in mail clients.
to
array of object
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Recipients on the message's To header.
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to.email
string
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Email address.
to.name
string
Display name shown alongside the address in mail clients.
cc
array of object
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Recipients on the message's Cc header.
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cc.email
string
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Email address.
cc.name
string
Display name shown alongside the address in mail clients.
subject
nullable string
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Subject line as received, or null when the message had no subject.
message_id
nullable string
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RFC 5322 Message-ID header from the sender, or null when the sender did not include one.
in_reply_to
nullable string
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The In-Reply-To header, which holds the Message-ID this message is replying to. Null when the message is not a reply.
references
array of string
The References header, which holds every Message-ID in this conversation, oldest first. Left out when the message arrived without one.
thread_id
nullable string
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Conversation this message belongs to, or null when it is not grouped into one.
authentication
nullable string
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Whether the sender of the received message was authenticated:
- pass: The sender's identity was verified.
- fail: The sender's identity was checked and did not verify.
- unknown: No verdict is available, so the sender should not be treated as verified.
Possible values: pass, fail, unknown, null
spf_pass
nullable boolean
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Whether SPF passed for the sender, parsed from the message's authentication results. Null when the authentication results did not include an SPF verdict.
dkim_pass
nullable boolean
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Whether DKIM passed for the sender, parsed from the message's authentication results. Null when the authentication results did not include a DKIM verdict.
dmarc_pass
nullable boolean
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Whether DMARC passed for the sender, parsed from the message's authentication results. Null when the authentication results did not include a DMARC verdict.
spam_score
nullable number
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Spam score on the received message, or null when there is no score.
attachments
array of object
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Metadata for each attachment found on the message. Empty when the message had no attachments.
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attachments.id
string
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Attachment ID, stable within the received message.
attachments.filename
nullable string
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Filename from the attachment's Content-Disposition, or null when the sender did not name the part.
attachments.content_type
nullable string
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MIME type parsed from the attachment part, or null when absent.
attachments.size
integer
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Size of the attachment in bytes.
received_at
string
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When the message was received.