curl -X GET 'https://api.resend.com/emails/receiving/email-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RESEND_API_KEY" \
  -H 'User-Agent: my-app/1.0'

# GET /emails/receiving/{email_id} (Resend API)
Base URL: https://api.resend.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <RESEND_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Retrieve a single received email

## Critical Gotchas
* All requests must include a `User-Agent` header (e.g. `User-Agent: my-app/1.0`) or the API returns HTTP 403.
* The `to` field is an array of strings, even when sending to a single recipient.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.resend.com/emails/receiving/email-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RESEND_API_KEY" \
  -H 'User-Agent: my-app/1.0'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| email_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the received email. |

## Response (200 OK)
{"object":"email","id":"550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"}

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GET

/emails/receiving/{email_id}

Resend API

Retrieve a single received email

Base URL: https://api.resend.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <RESEND_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

All requests must include a User-Agent header (e.g. User-Agent: my-app/1.0) or the API returns HTTP 403.

The to field is an array of strings, even when sending to a single recipient.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.resend.com/emails/receiving/email-id' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RESEND_API_KEY" \  -H 'User-Agent: my-app/1.0'

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
email_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the received email.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "email",
  "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
  "to": [
    "delivered@resend.dev"
  ],
  "from": "sender@example.com",
  "subject": "Hello World",
  "message_id": "<message-id@email.example.com>",
  "bcc": [],
  "cc": [],
  "reply_to": [],
  "received_for": [
    "forwarded@example.com"
  ],
  "html": "<p>Email content</p>",
  "text": "Email content",
  "headers": {
    "X-Custom-Header": "value"
  },
  "created_at": "2023-10-06T23:47:56.678Z",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "filename": "string",
      "content_type": "string",
      "content_id": "string",
      "content_disposition": "inline",
      "size": 0
    }
  ]
}