---
title: "Get a thread message's raw content"
method: GET
path: "/v1/email/threads/{thread_id}/messages/{message_id}/raw"
tags: ["email-threads"]
---

# Get a thread message's raw content

`GET /v1/email/threads/{thread_id}/messages/{message_id}/raw`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/threads/{thread_id}/messages/{message_id}/raw`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Returns the original message exactly as received, in RFC 5322 (MIME) format. Available for received messages for 30 days after the message occurred. Later requests return `410 Gone`. Sent messages have no stored raw form and return `404`.

## Headers

- `X-Workspace-Id` string
- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Response `200`

The original message in RFC 5322 (MIME) format.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `410`: The resource existed but is no longer available.
- `422`: The request has invalid field values, violates a business rule, or carries a query parameter the endpoint does not declare. Field validation errors use `type: validation_error` and include the affected fields in `details`. Business-rule errors identify the failed rule in `type`.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal server error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/messagebird/apis/bird-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/messagebird/apis/bird-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/messagebird/apis/bird-api/revisions/3e2a50466454?raw)