Send a raw MIME email

email_sending.send_raw() -> EmailSendingSendRawResponse

POST/accounts/{account_id}/email/sending/send_raw

Send a raw RFC 5322 (MIME) email for the specified account. Provide the full MIME message plus the SMTP envelope (from and recipients).

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194

ParametersExpand Collapse

account_id: str

Identifier of the account.

from_: str

Sender email address.

mime_message: str

The full MIME-encoded email message. Should include standard RFC 5322 headers such as From, To, Subject, and Content-Type. The from and recipients fields in the request body control SMTP envelope routing; the From and To headers in the MIME message control what the recipient’s email client displays.

recipients: Sequence[str]

List of recipient email addresses.

ReturnsExpand Collapse

class EmailSendingSendRawResponse: …

delivered: List[str]

Email addresses to which the message was delivered immediately.

message_id: str

Message ID of the sent email.

permanent_bounces: List[str]

Email addresses that permanently bounced.

queued: List[str]

Email addresses for which delivery was queued for later.

Send a raw MIME email

import os
from cloudflare import Cloudflare

client = Cloudflare(
    api_token=os.environ.get("CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
response = client.email_sending.send_raw(
    account_id="account_id",
    from_="sender@example.com",
    mime_message="From: sender@example.com\r\nTo: recipient@example.com\r\nSubject: Hello\r\nContent-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\nHello, World!",
    recipients=["recipient@example.com"],
)
print(response.message_id)

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "delivered": [
      "recipient@example.com"
    ],
    "message_id": "<aB3xK9mP2qR5sT8uV0wX1yZ4cD6fG7hJ9kL0@example.com>",
    "permanent_bounces": [
      "string"
    ],
    "queued": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
  "success": true,
  "result_info": {
    "count": 0,
    "per_page": 0,
    "total_count": 0,
    "cursor": "cursor",
    "page": 0
  }
}

Returns Examples

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "delivered": [
      "recipient@example.com"
    ],
    "message_id": "<aB3xK9mP2qR5sT8uV0wX1yZ4cD6fG7hJ9kL0@example.com>",
    "permanent_bounces": [
      "string"
    ],
    "queued": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
  "success": true,
  "result_info": {
    "count": 0,
    "per_page": 0,
    "total_count": 0,
    "cursor": "cursor",
    "page": 0
  }
}