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title: "Get a mailbox"
description: "`notify.mailboxes.get` (GET /v1/{name}): Gets a mailbox."
type: reference
product: email
summary: "Gets a mailbox."
updated: 2026-09-28
nav: false
---

Gets a mailbox.

- **Path** `GET https://api.sylphx.com/v1/orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production/mailboxes/mailbox`
- **Scope** `notify:read`
- **Effect** `read` — nothing is written.
- **Collection** [mailboxes](/docs/api/mailboxes)

## Request

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | The name of the mailbox to get. Required. |

## Response

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | `orgs/{org}/projects/{project}/envs/{env}/mailboxes/{mailbox}`. |
| `uid` | `string` | `mbx_<cell><ulid>`; never reused. Output only. |
| `meta` | `ResourceMeta` | Resource metadata. |
| `spec` | `MailboxSpec` | Desired state. Required. |
| `status` | `MailboxStatus` | Observed state. Output only. |

### ResourceMeta

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `generation` | `int64` | Increases by one on every change to `spec`. Output only. |
| `etag` | `string` | Strong ETag (AIP-154): changes on any change to spec, status, or metadata. Send it back as `If-Match` or `etag` to make Update and Delete conditional; a mismatch fails with ABORTED / 409 `ETAG_MISMATCH`. Output only. |
| `create_time` | `timestamp` | When the Resource was created. Output only. |
| `update_time` | `timestamp` | When the Resource last changed. Output only. |
| `delete_time` | `timestamp` | Set while the Resource is being deleted. Output only. |
| `labels` | `map<string, string>` | Caller-writable, indexed labels (AIP-122 label rules). |
| `annotations` | `map<string, string>` | Caller-writable, unindexed annotations. |
| `display_name` | `string` | Caller-writable human-readable name. |
| `creator` | `string` | The principal that created the Resource. Output only. |

### MailboxSpec

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `kind` | `MailboxKind` | Connected or hosted. Required. One of `connected`, `hosted`. |
| `address` | `string` | The address, for example `support@example.com`. Required. |
| `display_name` | `string` | The From display name of mail sent as this mailbox. |
| `imap` | `MailServer` | IMAP, for a connected mailbox. |
| `smtp` | `MailServer` | SMTP submission, for a connected mailbox. |
| `password` | `string` | The login password of both servers; write-only, sealed at rest. Never returned again. |
| `append_sent` | `bool` | Save a copy of mail sent as this mailbox to its Sent folder (IMAP APPEND); off when the provider saves one itself. |
| `backfill_start_time` | `timestamp` | Read mail received on or after this day on the first poll. |
| `enabled` | `bool` | Poll and send; a disabled mailbox keeps its records. |

### MailboxStatus

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `observed_generation` | `int64` | The generation this status was computed from. Output only. |
| `conditions` | `Condition[]` | Ready, Reconciling, Stalled. Output only. |
| `password_set` | `bool` | Whether a password is stored. Output only. |
| `last_poll_time` | `timestamp` | When the mailbox was last read. Output only. |
| `last_error` | `string` | The last poll's error; empty after a clean poll. Output only. |
| `sent_folder` | `string` | The Sent folder found on the server. Output only. |

### MailServer

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `host` | `string` | The host name. Required. |
| `port` | `int32` | The port; IMAP 993 and SMTP 465 when unset. |
| `username` | `string` | The login user; the mailbox address when unset. |
| `security` | `MailServerSecurity` | How the connection is secured. One of `tls`, `starttls`. |

### Condition

| Field | Type | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `type` | `string` | The condition type, for example `Ready`. |
| `status` | `ConditionStatus` | Whether the condition holds. One of `true`, `false`, `unknown`. |
| `observed_generation` | `int64` | The generation this observation was made against. |
| `reason` | `string` | A machine-readable UpperCamelCase reason. |
| `message` | `string` | A customer-safe human-readable message. |
| `severity` | `Severity` | How severe a FALSE condition is. One of `info`, `warning`, `error`. |
| `transition_time` | `timestamp` | When `status` last changed. |

## Errors

- [`UNAUTHENTICATED`](/docs/api/errors/UNAUTHENTICATED) — No valid key or token was presented.
- [`PERMISSION_DENIED`](/docs/api/errors/PERMISSION_DENIED) — The key lacks the method's permission.
- [`RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND`](/docs/api/errors/RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND) — The named Resource does not exist or is not visible.

Every error arrives in the body [Errors](/docs/platform/errors) describes.

## Examples

**cURL**

```curl
curl "https://api.sylphx.com/v1/orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production/mailboxes/mailbox" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SYLPHX_API_KEY"
```

**TypeScript**

```ts
const response = await sylphx.notify.mailboxes.get({ name: 'orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production/mailboxes/mailbox' })
```

**Rust**

```rust
let mut req = sylphx::notify::GetMailboxRequest::default();
req.name = "orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production/mailboxes/mailbox".to_string();
let response = sx.notify().mailboxes().get(req).await?;
```

**CLI**

```bash
sylphx notify mailboxes get orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production/mailboxes/mailbox
```

**MCP**

```json
{ "method_id": "notify.mailboxes.get", "args": {"name":"orgs/acme/projects/shop/envs/production/mailboxes/mailbox"} }
```