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E04xxx — Email sending & delivery

Error codes in the E04xxx range that the public Bird API returns. Each code links to its own page (the page its doc_url points at) with the cause and what to do. Retired codes stay listed; they are never renamed or reused.
CodeNameStatusMessage
E04000EmailBatchRequestTooLarge413The batch is larger than 20 MB.
E04001AttachmentContentTypeBlocked422The attachment content type is not allowed. See the email attachment documentation for the blocklist.
E04002MessageTooLarge413Once generated, this message is over the 20 MB limit.
E04004SuppressionNotFound404There is no suppression for that address.
E04006DomainNotVerified422The from address uses a domain that is not verified in this workspace.
E04007UnsupportedEmailFeature422This endpoint does not support what the request asked for: a field it cannot accept, or a combination of fields it cannot accept together.
E04008EmailBackendUnavailable503Email is temporarily unavailable.
E04009OnboardingRecipientNotAllowed422Sends from the shared onboarding domain can only go to verified members of your workspace.
E04010OnboardingSendLimitExceeded429The daily send limit for the shared onboarding domain has been reached.
E04011RecipientDomainNotAllowed422Sending to reserved testing domains such as @example.com or @test.com is not supported. These domains cannot receive mail. Use a real recipient address instead.
E04012EmailContentNotFound404We did not store the content of this message.
E04013EmailContentExpired410The stored content for this message has expired.
E04014EmailContentNotReady425The content of this message is not stored yet.
E04015MonthlySendLimitExceeded429This organization has reached its monthly email send limit.
E04016SendCeilingUnavailable503Email sending limits are temporarily unavailable. Retry in a moment.
E04017DailySendLimitExceeded429This organization has reached its daily email send limit.
E04021EmailTemplateNotFound404There is no template in this workspace with that id or slug.
E04024EmailTemplateNotPublished422This template has no published version, so there is nothing to send.
E04026ContactEmailExists409A contact with this email address already exists in this workspace.
E04027ContactExternalIdExists409A contact with this external_id already exists in this workspace.
E04028Retired: no longer returned, never reused.
E04029ContactPropertyArchived409This contact property is already archived.
E04030ContactPropertyNotArchived409This contact property is not archived.
E04031ContactPropertyLimit422This workspace has reached the maximum number of contact properties. Archived properties still count toward this limit, so archiving does not free a slot; reuse or update an existing property instead.
E04032ContactPropertyKeyExists409A contact property with this key already exists in this workspace.
E04033EmailSmtpConfigNotFound404There is no SMTP configuration for this API key.
E04036Retired: no longer returned, never reused.
E04045EmailTemplateLanguageInvalid422The language is not a valid language tag.
E04048EmailTemplateLanguageNotAvailable422This template does not have the language you asked for.
E04049EmailTemplateLanguageRequired422This template requires every send to name a language.
E04055ContactPhoneExists409A contact with this phone number already exists in this workspace.
E04056ContactIdentifierRequired422A contact needs at least one reachable identifier. Supply an email address, a phone number, or both.
E04057ContactPhoneInvalid422This does not look like a phone number. Send the international form, a leading plus sign, then the country code and number, for example +31612345678.
E04058ContactMatchAmbiguous409This entry's identifiers belong to more than one contact.
E04060ContactMatchKeyMissing422This entry does not carry the identifier the batch's match_on requires.
E04061EmailTemplateVariableInvalid422The content references a parameter whose name is not a single word.
E04062EmailTemplateParameterMissing422The send does not supply a value for every parameter the template uses.
E04065EmailTemplateContactUnavailable422The template reads contact data, which this send cannot fill.
E04066EmailTemplateVariableUnfillable422The template's published version reads a value nothing can fill.
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