curl -X GET 'https://api.resend.com/emails/receiving?limit=10&after=example-after&before=example-before' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RESEND_API_KEY" \
  -H 'User-Agent: my-app/1.0'

# GET /emails/receiving (Resend API)
Base URL: https://api.resend.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <RESEND_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Retrieve a list of received emails

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

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.resend.com/emails/receiving?limit=10&after=example-after&before=example-before' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RESEND_API_KEY" \
  -H 'User-Agent: my-app/1.0'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| limit | query | integer | No | Maximum number of received emails to return. |
| after | query | string | No | Pagination cursor to fetch results after this email ID. C... |
| before | query | string | No | Pagination cursor to fetch results before this email ID.... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"object":"list","has_more":false}

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GET /emails/receiving — Resend API

Resend API

Retrieve a list of received emails

Base URL: https://api.resend.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <RESEND_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · 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.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.resend.com/emails/receiving?limit=10&after=example-after&before=example-before' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RESEND_API_KEY" \  -H 'User-Agent: my-app/1.0'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
limit	query	integer	No	Maximum number of received emails to return.
after	query	string	No	Pagination cursor to fetch results after this email ID. Cannot be used with 'before'.
before	query	string	No	Pagination cursor to fetch results before this email ID. Cannot be used with 'after'.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "list",
  "has_more": false,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "to": [
        "[email protected]"
      ],
      "from": "[email protected]",
      "subject": "Hello World",
      "message_id": "<[email protected]>",
      "bcc": [
        "string"
      ],
      "cc": [
        "string"
      ],
      "reply_to": [
        "string"
      ],
      "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
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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