Forward an email

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.instantly.ai/api/v2/emails/forward \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "eaccount": "jondoe@example.com",
  "reply_to_uuid": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000",
  "to_address_email_list": "recipient@example.com",
  "subject": "Fwd: Interesting update",
  "body": {
    "html": "<p>Sharing this with you.</p>",
    "text": "Sharing this with you."
  }
}
'

{
  "id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be46f0d941c",
  "timestamp_created": "2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z",
  "timestamp_email": "2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z",
  "message_id": "<example123@mail.gmail.com>",
  "subject": "Re: Your inquiry",
  "to_address_email_list": "recipient@example.com",
  "body": {
    "text": "This is a test email",
    "html": "<p>This is a test email</p>"
  },
  "organization_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be565ea00e4",
  "eaccount": "eaccount-123",
  "from_address_email": "sender@example.com",
  "cc_address_email_list": "cc@example.com",
  "bcc_address_email_list": "bcc@example.com",
  "reply_to": "replyto@example.com",
  "campaign_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be61e566b5d",
  "subsequence_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be77dbe4eca",
  "list_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be8fad733ac",
  "lead": "jondoe@example.com",
  "lead_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be97e6159ef",
  "ue_type": 3,
  "step": "step-123",
  "is_unread": 1,
  "is_auto_reply": 0,
  "reminder_ts": "2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z",
  "ai_interest_value": 0.75,
  "ai_assisted": 1,
  "is_focused": 1,
  "i_status": 0,
  "thread_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0bea911fd846",
  "content_preview": "This is a preview of the email content.",
  "attachment_json": {
    "files": [
      {
        "filename": "attachment",
        "size": 1927,
        "type": "text/css",
        "url": "https://cdn.instantly.ai/example-attachment/",
        "error": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "from_address_json": "<array>",
  "to_address_json": "<array>",
  "cc_address_json": "<array>",
  "ai_agent_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0bebb671c59c"
}

POST

api

emails

forward

Forward an email

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.instantly.ai/api/v2/emails/forward \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "eaccount": "jondoe@example.com",
  "reply_to_uuid": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000",
  "to_address_email_list": "recipient@example.com",
  "subject": "Fwd: Interesting update",
  "body": {
    "html": "<p>Sharing this with you.</p>",
    "text": "Sharing this with you."
  }
}
'

{
  "id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be46f0d941c",
  "timestamp_created": "2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z",
  "timestamp_email": "2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z",
  "message_id": "<example123@mail.gmail.com>",
  "subject": "Re: Your inquiry",
  "to_address_email_list": "recipient@example.com",
  "body": {
    "text": "This is a test email",
    "html": "<p>This is a test email</p>"
  },
  "organization_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be565ea00e4",
  "eaccount": "eaccount-123",
  "from_address_email": "sender@example.com",
  "cc_address_email_list": "cc@example.com",
  "bcc_address_email_list": "bcc@example.com",
  "reply_to": "replyto@example.com",
  "campaign_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be61e566b5d",
  "subsequence_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be77dbe4eca",
  "list_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be8fad733ac",
  "lead": "jondoe@example.com",
  "lead_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be97e6159ef",
  "ue_type": 3,
  "step": "step-123",
  "is_unread": 1,
  "is_auto_reply": 0,
  "reminder_ts": "2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z",
  "ai_interest_value": 0.75,
  "ai_assisted": 1,
  "is_focused": 1,
  "i_status": 0,
  "thread_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0bea911fd846",
  "content_preview": "This is a preview of the email content.",
  "attachment_json": {
    "files": [
      {
        "filename": "attachment",
        "size": 1927,
        "type": "text/css",
        "url": "https://cdn.instantly.ai/example-attachment/",
        "error": null
      }
    ]
  },
  "from_address_json": "<array>",
  "to_address_json": "<array>",
  "cc_address_json": "<array>",
  "ai_agent_id": "019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0bebb671c59c"
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

eaccount

string

required

The email account that will be used to send this email. It has to be an email account connected to your workspace

Example:

"jondoe@example.com"

reply_to_uuid

string

required

The id of the email you want to forward

Example:

"123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"

to_address_email_list

string

required

Comma-separated list of recipients that will receive the forwarded email

Example:

"recipient@example.com"

subject

string

required

Subject line of the forwarded email message

Example:

"Fwd: Interesting update"

body

object

required

The email body. You can specify either the html or the text field, or both

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cc_address_email_list

string

Comma-separated list of CC email addresses

Example:

"cc@example.com"

bcc_address_email_list

string

Comma-separated list of BCC email addresses

Example:

"bcc@example.com"

forwarded_attachments

string

JSON-encoded forwarded attachment metadata from the original email

Example:

"[{\"filename\":\"attachment.pdf\",\"url\":\"https://cdn.instantly.ai/example-attachment/file.pdf\"}]"

assigned_to

string<uuid>

The user id assigned to the lead

Example:

"019cc043-e35b-7230-83e9-9c0c7189fde0"

Response

The requested Email

A campaign email, a reply, a manually sent email, or any other email that's visible in the Unibox

string<uuid>

required

A Unique identifier

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be46f0d941c"

timestamp_created

string<date-time>

required

Timestamp when the email was added to our database. This is not the timestamp of the email itself, since the email could have been sent at a different time. Please check the timestamp_email field for the timestamp of the email.

Example:

"2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z"

timestamp_email

string<date-time>

required

The timestamp of the email, as provided by the email server. Please note that the timestamp is not always accurate, as it can be manipulated by the sender or the email server.

Example:

"2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z"

message_id

string

required

Unique email ID from the email server

Example:

"<example123@mail.gmail.com>"

subject

string

required

Subject line of the email message

Example:

"Re: Your inquiry"

to_address_email_list

string

required

Comma-separated list of recipient email addresses

Example:

"recipient@example.com"

body

object

required

An object containing the email body in HTML and text format

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organization_id

string<uuid>

required

The workspace ID

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be565ea00e4"

eaccount

string

required

The email account that was used to send the email. This needs to be validated to make sure it exists in the user workspace

Example:

"eaccount-123"

from_address_email

null | string<email>

The sender email address, populated based on the eaccount

Example:

"sender@example.com"

cc_address_email_list

null | string

Comma-separated list of CC email addresses

Example:

"cc@example.com"

bcc_address_email_list

null | string

Comma-separated list of BCC email addresses

Example:

"bcc@example.com"

reply_to

null | string

Reply-to email address

Example:

"replyto@example.com"

campaign_id

null | string<uuid>

The id of the campaign that the email is associated with (it can be null for manually sent emails)

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be61e566b5d"

subsequence_id

null | string<uuid>

The id of the campaign subsequence that the email is associated with (it can be null for manually sent emails)

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be77dbe4eca"

list_id

null | string<uuid>

The id of the list (if the lead is part of a list)

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be8fad733ac"

lead

null | string

The email address of the lead that the email is associated with

Example:

"jondoe@example.com"

lead_id

null | string<uuid>

The lead id (if any)

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0be97e6159ef"

ue_type

null | enum<number>

Email type based on the life cycle of the email

Available options:

1,

2,

3,

4

Example:

3

step

null | string

The campaign step that the email is associated with

Example:

"step-123"

is_unread

null | number

Indicates if the email is unread

Example:

1

is_auto_reply

null | number

Indicates if the email is an auto-reply. 0 (zero) - is false, and 1 is true

Example:

0

reminder_ts

null | string<date-time>

Timestamp for the reminder.

Example:

"2026-03-05T23:09:47.241Z"

ai_interest_value

null | number

AI interest value

Example:

0.75

ai_assisted

null | number

Indicates if AI assistance was used

Example:

1

is_focused

null | number

Indicates if the email is focused (is in the primary tab in the Unibox)

Example:

1

i_status

null | number

Indicates the interest status of the email

Example:

0

thread_id

null | string<uuid>

Identifier for the email thread. All the emails in the same thread have the same thread ID

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0bea911fd846"

content_preview

null | string

A short preview of the email content (usually the first few lines of the email)

Example:

"This is a preview of the email content."

attachment_json

object

Attachment metadata for the email. This field is null when there are no attachments.

Show child attributes

Example:

{
  "files": [
    {
      "filename": "attachment",
      "size": 1927,
      "type": "text/css",
      "url": "https://cdn.instantly.ai/example-attachment/",
      "error": null
    }
  ]
}

from_address_json

null | array

List of from address details

to_address_json

null | array

List of to address details

cc_address_json

null | array

List of CC address details

ai_agent_id

null | string<uuid>

ID of the AI agent that sent this email (if applicable)

Example:

"019cc043-af69-762b-a7a0-0bebb671c59c"

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