Primitive

Primitive Emails API

List, inspect, and manage received emails

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Operations 9

GET /emails List inbound emails #
GET /emails/search Search inbound emails #
GET /emails/{id} Get inbound email by id #
DELETE /emails/{id} Delete an email #
GET /emails/{id}/raw Download raw email #
GET /emails/{id}/attachments.tar.gz Download email attachments #
POST /emails/{id}/replay Replay email webhooks #
POST /emails/{id}/discard-content Discard email content #
GET /emails/{id}/conversation Get the conversation an email belongs to #

Specifications

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OpenAPI Specification

primitive-emails-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Primitive Emails API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: Primitive is email infrastructure for AI agents.
  contact:
    name: Primitive
    url: https://primitive.dev
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://primitive.dev/terms
  x-stability-level: stable
  x-deprecation-policy: 'Breaking changes are announced at least 6 months in advance. Deprecated fields carry x-deprecated: true. The current stable version is v1.'
servers:
- url: https://api.primitive.dev/v1
  description: Canonical API host (PRIMITIVE_API_BASE_URL). Carries every public API operation.
tags:


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