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nextmail.senders

Every method in this namespace: its signature, its parameters, what it returns and an example.

Methods

What is known about the organisation behind a sender, the line the reading pane shows under an unfamiliar one, and looking a sender up.

senders.get()

Read what is known about a sender

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Signature
def get(    email: str,    *,    api_key: str | None = None,    timeout: float | None = None,) -> SenderProfileResource

Returns a sentence or two about the organisation behind the domain of an address, the line the reading pane shows under an unfamiliar sender. Only the domain is read, so any address on it gives the same answer, a subdomain such as mail.stripe.com included, and domain names the organisation's own domain. What is known is shared by every workspace and looked up again by itself once it is 30 days old.

A domain nobody has looked up yet is a 404, and so are personal mailbox providers such as Gmail and the domains of your own workspace. Each raises NextmailApiError with is_not_found. research looks a domain up.

Parameters

emailstrRequired

An address of the sender, such as billing@stripe.com.

api_keystr

Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

timeoutfloat

Seconds this call may take, the response included, before it raises NextmailNetworkError with is_timeout. It overrides the client's timeout for this call, and 0 turns the limit off.

Returns

SenderProfileResource, a dict with object set to 'sender_profile', domain, about and updatedAt.

Example

from nextmail import NextmailApiError, nextmail try:    sender = nextmail.senders.get('billing@stripe.com')    print(sender['domain'], sender['about'])except NextmailApiError as error:    if error.is_not_found:        print('Nobody has looked stripe.com up yet')    else:        raise

Notes

Also available in

API
GET /senders/{email}
TypeScript
nextmail.senders.get()
Ruby
senders.get
PHP
senders->get
Go
Senders.Get
Java
senders().get
C#
Senders.GetAsync
CLI
nextmail senders get

senders.research()

Look a sender up

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def research(    email: str,    *,    api_key: str | None = None,    timeout: float | None = None,) -> SenderProfileResource

Searches the web for the organisation behind the domain of an address and keeps what it found, as the reading pane does the first time it shows a sender. Every address under the domain shares the answer, a subdomain such as mail.stripe.com included, and it is kept for 30 days before it is looked up again, so a domain that was looked up before is answered from what was kept and nothing is searched. Personal mailbox providers such as Gmail and the domains of your own workspace are never looked up.

Only the owner of the workspace may look senders up, with a key or an app that is not limited to particular addresses or domains: anything else is a 422 capability_unsupported or a 403 owner_only. A workspace looks up at most 200 new domains a day, and the next one is a 429 research_limit_reached. A domain nothing could be found about, a personal mailbox provider and a domain of your own workspace are a 404.

Parameters

emailstrRequired

An address of the sender. Only its domain is looked up.

api_keystr

Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

timeoutfloat

Seconds this call may take, the response included, before it raises NextmailNetworkError with is_timeout. It overrides the client's timeout for this call, and 0 turns the limit off.

Returns

SenderProfileResource, what was found or what was already known.

Example

from nextmail import nextmail sender = nextmail.senders.research('hello@acme-robotics.io') print(sender['domain'], sender['about'])

Notes

  • The SDK retries it after a network failure, which is safe because a domain that was found is answered from what was kept.

Also available in

API
POST /senders/{email}/research
TypeScript
nextmail.senders.research()
Ruby
senders.research
PHP
senders->research
Go
Senders.Research
Java
senders().research
C#
Senders.ResearchAsync
CLI
nextmail senders research