Retrieve email
GET
https://api.postwick.dev /emails/{email_id} Retrieve a single sent email and its latest event.
Parameters
email_idstringpathrequiredThe email id.
Code samples
cURL
curl -X GET "https://api.postwick.dev/emails/{email_id}"TypeScript
const res = await fetch('https://api.postwick.dev/emails/{email_id}', {
method: 'GET',
});
const data = await res.json();Python
import requests
res = requests.request(
"GET",
"https://api.postwick.dev/emails/{email_id}",
)
data = res.json()Go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.postwick.dev/emails/{email_id}", nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}PHP
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.postwick.dev/emails/{email_id}');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;Ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
uri = URI('https://api.postwick.dev/emails/{email_id}')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(req)
end
puts res.bodyJava
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.*;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest.BodyPublishers;
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://api.postwick.dev/emails/{email_id}"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());Responses
200 OK
{
"object": "email",
"id": "4ee5d4c7",
"to": [
"ada@example.com"
],
"subject": "hello world",
"last_event": "delivered",
"created_at": "2026-10-12 09:14:03.117+00"
}Updated
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