cURL

const msg = await bird.email.send({
  from: { email: "onboarding@messagebird.dev", name: "Bird" },
  to: ["delivered@messagebird.dev"],
  subject: "Hello from Bird",
  html: "<p>My first Bird email.</p>",
});
console.log(msg.id, msg.status); // "em_…", "accepted"

msg = client.email.send(
    from_={"email": "onboarding@messagebird.dev", "name": "Bird"},
    to=["delivered@messagebird.dev"],
    subject="Hello from Bird",
    html="<p>My first Bird email.</p>",
)
print(msg.id, msg.status)

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"

	bird "github.com/messagebird/bird-sdk-go"
	"github.com/messagebird/bird-sdk-go/option"
)

func main() {
	client, err := bird.NewClient(option.WithAPIKey(os.Getenv("BIRD_API_KEY")))
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	msg, err := client.Email.Send(context.Background(), bird.EmailSendParams{
		From:    "onboarding@messagebird.dev",
		To:      []string{"delivered@messagebird.dev"},
		Subject: "Hello from Bird",
		HTML:    "<p>My first Bird email.</p>",
	})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(msg.Id, *msg.Status)
}

$message = $bird->email->send(
    from: 'Bird <onboarding@messagebird.dev>',
    to: ['delivered@messagebird.dev'],
    subject: 'Hello from Bird',
    html: '<p>My first Bird email.</p>',
);
echo $message->getId(), ' ', $message->getStatus();

bird email send \
  --category transactional \
  --cc manager@acme.com \
  --from 'Acme Support <noreply@acme.com>' \
  --header X-Campaign=spring-2026 \
  --html '<h1>Hi there 👋</h1>' \
  --metadata '{"user_id":"usr_12345"}' \
  --reply-to support@acme.com \
  --subject 'Welcome aboard' \
  --tag category=welcome \
  --text 'Hi there' \
  --to 'Jane Doe <delivered@messagebird.dev>' \
  --track-clicks=false

curl -X POST https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/messages \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BIRD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "from": "onboarding@messagebird.dev",
    "to": ["delivered@messagebird.dev"],
    "subject": "Hello from Bird",
    "html": "<p>My first Bird email.</p>"
  }'

const msg = await bird.email.get("em_abc123");
msg.status; // "accepted" | "processed" | "delivered" | "bounced" | …
msg.delivered_count;
msg.bounced_count;

message = client.email.get("em_abc123")
print(message.id, message.status, message.delivered_count)

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"

	bird "github.com/messagebird/bird-sdk-go"
	"github.com/messagebird/bird-sdk-go/option"
)

func main() {
	client, err := bird.NewClient(option.WithAPIKey(os.Getenv("BIRD_API_KEY")))
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	msg, err := client.Email.Get(context.Background(), "em_abc123")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(*msg.Status, *msg.DeliveredCount)
}

$message = $bird->email->get('em_01krdgeqcxet5s7t44vh8rt9mg');
echo $message->getStatus();

bird email get <message-id>

curl https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/messages/em_01ky7ma8y2es1s2akzk53tmjn0 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BIRD_API_KEY"