# Create a receiving Webhook

## Configure Webhook

Once you can [receive emails](/guides/learn-dashboard-receiving-introduction#quickstart), you can create a route to handle these emails in your application and configure an [`email.received` webhook](/guides/learn-webhooks-emails-received) in your Dashboard.

Alternatively, you can use Resend's code tools to create your webhook from the [Webhooks API](/guides/webhooks-create-webhook) or with a [webhook CLI command](/guides/resources-cli#webhooks).

To configure your webhook in the Dashboard:

:::::steps
::::step{title="Create a route to receive emails."}
In your application, create a new route that can accept `POST` requests.

Here's how you can implement this:

:::code-group
```js Next.js theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
// app/api/events/route.ts
import type { NextRequest } from 'next/server';
import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';

export const POST = async (request: NextRequest) => {
  const event = await request.json();

  if (event.type === 'email.received') {
    return NextResponse.json(event);
  }

  return NextResponse.json({});
};
```

```php Laravel theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
// routes/api.php
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::post('/events', function (Request $request) {
    $event = $request->json()->all();

    if ($event['type'] === 'email.received') {
        return response()->json($event);
    }

    return response()->json([]);
});
```

```php PHP theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
// index.php
header('Content-Type: application/json');

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] !== 'POST') {
    http_response_code(405);
    echo json_encode(['error' => 'Method Not Allowed']);
    exit;
}

$body = file_get_contents('php://input');
$event = json_decode($body, true);

if (json_last_error() !== JSON_ERROR_NONE) {
    http_response_code(400);
    echo json_encode(['error' => 'Invalid JSON']);
    exit;
}

if ($event['type'] === 'email.received') {
    echo json_encode($event);
    exit;
}

echo json_encode([]);
```

```rust Rust theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
#[derive(Serialize)]
struct Empty {}

async fn example(Json(event): Json<resend_rs::events::EmailEvent>) -> Response {
    if matches!(
        event.r#type,
        resend_rs::events::EmailEventType::EmailReceived
    ) {
        Json(event).into_response()
    } else {
        Json(Empty {}).into_response()
    }
}
```
:::

Once you receive the email event, you can process the email body and attachments. You can also implement [webhook request verification](/guides/learn-webhooks-verify-webhooks-requests) to secure your webhook endpoint.

:::callout{intent="tip"}
Any email sent to any username at your receiving domain will be received
by Resend and forwarded to your webhook. You can intelligently route based
on the `to` field in the webhook event to create different workflows to
handle different inbound emails.
:::
::::

:::step{title="Go to the Webhooks page in your Resend Dashboard"}
:::

:::step{title="Click Add Webhook."}
:::

:::step{title="Enter the URL of the route you created for your webhook endpoint."}
:::

:::step{title="Select the event type `email.received`."}
![Add Webhook for Receiving Emails](../img/site-assets/mintcdn.com/resend/1QlhxulUFE6jxYM_/images/inbound-webhook-setup-uyast4.jpg)
:::

:::step{title="Click Add."}
:::
:::::

:::callout{intent="tip"}
For development, you can create a tunnel to your localhost server using a tool like
[ngrok](https://ngrok.com/download) or [VS Code Port Forwarding](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/debugtest/port-forwarding). These tools serve your local dev environment at a public URL you can use to test your local webhook endpoint.

Example: `https://example123.ngrok.io/api/webhook`
:::

Once you receive an email event, you can process the email body and attachments from the webhook payload.

```json theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
{
  "type": "email.received",
  "created_at": "2026-02-22T23:41:12.126Z",
  "data": {
    "email_id": "56761188-7520-42d8-8898-ff6fc54ce618",
    "created_at": "2026-02-22T23:41:11.894Z",
    "from": "onboarding@resend.dev",
    "to": ["delivered@resend.dev"],
    "bcc": [],
    "cc": [],
    "received_for": ["forwarded@example.com"],
    "message_id": "<111-222-333@email.example.com>",
    "subject": "Sending this example",
    "attachments": [
      {
        "id": "2a0c9ce0-3112-4728-976e-47ddcd16a318",
        "filename": "avatar.png",
        "content_type": "image/png",
        "content_disposition": "inline",
        "content_id": "img001"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

:::callout{intent="info"}
Webhooks do not include the email body, headers, or attachments, only their
metadata. You must call the [Received emails
API](/guides/receiving-retrieve-received-email) or the [Attachments
API](/guides/receiving-list-received-email-attachments) to retrieve them.
This design choice supports large attachments in serverless environments that
have limited request body sizes.
:::

## API Reference

For complete API documentation, see the [Webhooks API reference](/guides/webhooks-create-webhook).

## Related pages

- [Receiving Emails](./learn-dashboard-receiving-introduction.md)
- [Managing Emails](./learn-dashboard-receiving-manage-emails.md)
- [Custom Receiving Domains](./learn-dashboard-receiving-custom-domains.md)
- [Process Receiving Attachments](./learn-dashboard-receiving-attachments.md)
- [Get Email Content](./learn-dashboard-receiving-get-email-content.md)
- [Forward Received Emails](./learn-dashboard-receiving-forward-emails.md)
- [Reply to Receiving Emails](./learn-dashboard-receiving-reply-to-emails.md)

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