# Retrieve a list of received emails

**GET** `/emails/receiving`

Base URL: `https://api.resend.com`

Tags: `Receiving Emails`

## Authorization

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `bearerAuth` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` | — |

## Query parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | `integer` | No | Maximum number of received emails to return. |
| `after` | `string` (uuid) | No | Pagination cursor to fetch results after this email ID. Cannot be used with 'before'. |
| `before` | `string` (uuid) | No | Pagination cursor to fetch results before this email ID. Cannot be used with 'after'. |

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `200` | OK | `application/json` |

### Example response: 200 — OK

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "attachments": [
        {
          "content_disposition": "attachment",
          "content_id": "string",
          "content_type": "string",
          "filename": "string",
          "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
          "size": 0
        }
      ],
      "bcc": [
        "string"
      ],
      "cc": [
        "string"
      ],
      "created_at": "2023-10-06T23:47:56.678Z",
      "from": "sender@example.com",
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "message_id": "<message-id@example.com>",
      "reply_to": [
        "string"
      ],
      "subject": "Hello World",
      "to": [
        "delivered@resend.dev"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "has_more": false,
  "object": "list"
}
```

## Related pages

- [Add a contact to a segment](./contacts-contact_id-segments-segment_id/post.md)
- [API keys](./tags/api-keys.md)
- [Audiences](./tags/audiences.md)
- [Automations](./tags/automations.md)
- [Broadcasts](./tags/broadcasts.md)
- [Cancel the schedule of the e-mail.](./emails-email_id-cancel.md)
- [Contact Properties](./tags/contact-properties.md)
- [Contacts](./tags/contacts.md)
- [Create a broadcast](./broadcasts/post.md)
- [Create a list of contacts](./audiences/post.md)

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