# Email for developers From the first welcome to the next big launch. Send and receive email with Bird’s API. [Get started](/dashboard/signup?returnTo=%2Fdashboard%2Fw%2Femail) [Contact Sales](/demo?product=email) [Read customer stories](/customers) [Explore Enterprise](/enterprise) - [Airwallex](/customers/airwallex) - [Glovo](/customers/glovo) - [Zillow](/customers/zillow) - Uber - [Binance](/customers/binance) - Adobe - Meta - PayPal - Pinterest - Square - [Al Jazeera](/customers/aljazeera) - [Aramex](/customers/aramex) - [Bazaar Technologies](/customers/bazaar) - [ComparaOnline](/customers/compara) - [Emma](/customers/emma) ## From prompt to delivered. Send email from your app or agent. Follow it through delivery. Full read and write access through MCP and CLI. **MCP**: `Bird MCP` ```json https://mcp.bird.com ``` ## One template. Made personal. Publish once. Personalize each send with the details from your app. Email Studio CONTACT PROPERTY First name Preview contact Hi {{ first_name }} , Apply to greeting Alex harborObjects for everyday living. THE EVERYDAY COLLECTION ### Good things. Made for real life. Hi Alex , meet the pieces that make ordinary moments feel a little more special. Find your favorite [Explore Email templates](/email-api/features/templates) ## A personal touch. A wider reach. Turn contact details into personal messages for the right audience. MC ### Maya Chen Contact maya@example.comEmail +1 202 555 0142Phone First name Maya City Lisbon Membership Plus Audiences 1 selected Harbor members 420 contacts Email Personalized preview HARBOR® MORE POSSIBILITIES. JUST FOR YOU. ### A little more room for you, Maya. A little extra for Plus members. Make yourself at home. Explore your benefits The Harbor team ### Personalized broadcast Ready for review Audience Harbor members420 recipients Schedule 24 Sep, 09:00Email · UTC [Explore broadcasts](/docs/guides/email/broadcasts) ## Ready to send. From your domain. Verify DKIM, return-path, and DMARC. Manage reputation as your volume grows. Sending domain mail.harbor.example Ready to send DKIMTXT Ownership and signing Verified Return-pathCNAME SPF and bounce handling Verified DMARCTXT Authentication policy Verified Sending enabled All three sending records verified. Branded tracking Optional Illustrative verification states. DNS checks can take time to propagate. No domain is registered or verified from this page. [Domain setup](/docs/guides/email/sending-domains)[DKIM, SPF & DMARC](/docs/guides/email/dkim-spf-dmarc)[Dedicated IPs](/docs/guides/email/dedicated-ips-and-pools)[Suppressions](/docs/guides/email/suppressions) [Explore deliverability](/email-api/features/deliverability) ## Before you ship. After you send. Preview requests, follow delivery, and fix errors with clear feedback. Email sandbox To `delivered@messagebird.dev` DeliveredBounced 01 `email.accepted` 02 `email.processed` 03 `email.delivered` Email delivered Run test ### Test before you send. Exercise delivered and bounced outcomes with sandbox recipients. [Explore testing](/docs/guides/email/testing-sandbox) `POST /webhooks/bird` Signed Email delivered Its signed event is ready for your endpoint. `email.delivered`14:32:01 · 38 ms Queued `email.processed`14:32:01 · 38 ms 200 Endpoint response Replay event ### Know what happened. Follow recipient delivery through signed events and endpoint replays. [Explore webhooks](/docs/guides/email/events) `POST /v1/email/messages` Idempotency-Key `welcome/customer_42` Original request 202 Accepted `id: em_01ky7ma8y2es1s2akzk53tmjn0`status: accepted Same request · retry 01 202 Accepted `id: em_01ky7ma8y2es1s2akzk53tmjn0`Idempotency-Replay: true Same request. Same result. Retry request ### Recover the response. Retry with the same key to recover the original response. [Explore idempotency](/docs/guides/idempotency) `POST /v1/email/messages` `to[0]` 422 `E01001 ValidationError` `to[0]` must be a valid email address. Separate the mailbox and domain with @. `req_01ky7q4665emc9tw1pxkptaqwq`[Error reference](/docs/api/errors/E01001) Fix & retry ### Errors you can act on. The field, the reason, and the correction. Then try again. [Explore errors](/docs/guides/errors) Illustrative product states. No messages are sent from this page. ## Every email. A clearer picture. Follow delivery over time. See which providers account for bounces. Email analytics ### Delivery over time 89,712 accepted 98.7% delivery rate Accepted Delivered Bounced Sep 21 · UTC 74.0% of bounces in this hour Gmail 321 of 434 · 14:00–15:00 UTC #### By provider 14:00–15:00 UTC Provider | Accepted | Bounced | Share | Gmail | 3,670 | 321 | 74.0% | Outlook | 2,002 | 78 | 18.0% | Yahoo | 1,000 | 35 | 8.1% | [Explore Email analytics](/email-api/features/analytics) ## Explore Email. From sending domains to incoming replies. Build email into your app. [Email API Send email from your application. Follow the result for each recipient.](#integrate)[Templates Create reusable emails that feel personal to each recipient.](/email-api/features/templates)[Deliverability Prepare your sending identity and understand delivery health.](/email-api/features/deliverability)[Inbound Receive email in your application, with the content and attachments ready to process.](/email-api/features/inbound)[Automations Send the right email when an event occurs.](/docs/guides/automations)[Broadcasts Personalize, schedule and track an email campaign.](/email-api/features/broadcasts)[Audiences Build audiences from the contacts you want to reach.](/email-api/features/audiences)[SMTP Connect email sending to the applications you already run.](/email-api/features/smtp)[Webhooks Let your application react to email events.](/docs/guides/email/events)[Analytics See where email succeeds and where to investigate.](/email-api/features/analytics) ## Scale without losing control. Organize teams in workspaces, control API access, and trace changes through audit logs. Harbor Organization Workspaces Production Sandbox ### Delivery agent API key · Customer operations team Active Permissions Access Email Read & write SMS Read & write WhatsApp Read Read & write AL Alex Lee Admin Permissions updated ### Audit log Production API key updated Alex Lee · 09:42:18 UTC Workspace Production Resource Delivery agent WhatsApp Read Read & write Succeeded [Workspaces](/docs/guides/workspaces)[Team roles](/docs/guides/users-teams-roles)[API authentication](/docs/guides/authentication) [Explore Enterprise](/enterprise) Examples: [MCP](/it-it/email-api.mcp.md) · [CLI](/it-it/email-api.cli.md) · [TypeScript](/it-it/email-api.ts.md) · [Python](/it-it/email-api.py.md) · [Go](/it-it/email-api.go.md) · [PHP](/it-it/email-api.php.md) · [cURL](/it-it/email-api.curl.md) ## Start with Email. Build across channels with Bird. [Get started](/dashboard/signup?returnTo=%2Fdashboard%2Fw%2Femail) · [Contact Sales](/demo?product=email) [Email](/email-api) · [SMS](/sms-api) · [WhatsApp](/whatsapp-api) · [Apple Messages](/apple-messages-api) · [Voice](/voice-api) ## Related resources - [Getting started with email](/learn/email/getting-started-with-email) (video) - [Send your first email](/docs/get-started/send-your-first-email) (docs) - [Build your first integration](/learn/paths/integration) (course) [Get an implementation brief](/learn/workspace?topic=email)