Receiving Emails

Resend provides all the tools you need to receive emails (commonly called inbound) at a verified domain, or at your account's Resend-managed <id>.resend.app subdomain.

This is useful for:

• Receiving support emails from users.
• Processing forwarded attachments.
• Replying to emails from customers.

With Resend's email receiving features, you can:

• View all received emails in the Emails Dashboard page.
• Receive incoming emails and get notified with a webhook event.
• Poll for new inbound emails in the terminal and display them as they arrive.
• Retrieve full email content (HTML, text, headers) for use in your application.
• Process attachments using attachment metadata and temporary download URLs.
• Forward emails to another email address.
• Reply to emails in the same thread
• View API endpoint logs and deliverability metrics for monitoring and troubleshooting.

To start receiving emails using a domain managed by Resend, get your unique <id>.resend.app domain:

You can also configure a verified domain for receiving emails at your custom domain. Once you add the MX record to your custom domain, you will receive emails through Resend for any address at that domain.

Once you can receive mail, you can create a received mail webhook to receive real-time notifications about incoming email.

Resend processes all incoming emails to your receiving domain, parses the contents and attachments, and then sends a POST request to an endpoint that you choose to handle the received email.

To handle your received emails, you can use a variety of tools:

• SDK: process inbound emails with an SDK built for your language
• Integrations: process inbound emails using a framework or tool you already use
• API: process inbound emails with raw HTTP API calls
• CLI: process inbound emails and stream incoming messages from the terminal
• MCP: list, read, and download inbound emails through your agent with MCP

See how to use all of Resend's receiving features such as processing attachments and forwarding emails to another address in the receiving email guides.

After you've received your first email, you'll be able to view and manage your emails in the Emails Dashboard page under the Receiving tab. From here, you can view email details, share a public version, and more.

You can also manage your emails programmatically using the Receiving API, CLI commands, or the MCP server.

Learn more about managing your received emails in the dedicated guide.

See how to use Resend's receiving features.