Retrieve an email

One message, in full — including the body you sent and the attachments that went with it.

GET /v1/emails/{id}

Requires a Full access API key.

Example

curl

curl "https://api.sendgrail.com/v1/emails/4ef9a417-02e9-4d39-ad75-9611e0fcc33c" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SENDGRAIL_API_KEY"

Node.js

const res = await fetch(
  `https://api.sendgrail.com/v1/emails/${id}`,
  { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SENDGRAIL_API_KEY}` } },
);
const email = await res.json();

Response

{
  "object": "email",
  "id": "4ef9a417-02e9-4d39-ad75-9611e0fcc33c",
  "to": ["recipient@example.org"],
  "from": "Acme <hello@example.com>",
  "created_at": "2026-07-14T09:41:55+00:00",
  "subject": "Your receipt",
  "html": "<p>Thanks for your order.</p>",
  "text": "Thanks for your order.",
  "bcc": [],
  "cc": [],
  "reply_to": [],
  "headers": null,
  "last_event": "delivered",
  "scheduled_at": null,
  "attachments": [
    { "filename": "invoice.pdf", "content_type": "application/pdf", "size": 20418 }
  ]
}

attachments names what went out — never the bytes. To download one, use List attachments, which returns a short-lived signed URL per file.

An email belonging to another team returns 404 not_found — the same answer as one that doesn't exist, so an id can't be probed for existence.

See the email object for every field and status.