## Send an email

`client.Email.Send(ctx, body) (*EmailSendResponse, error)`

**post** `/v1/emails/send`

Sends an email via the connected email account that owns the `from` address. Currently supports new sends only; replies and forwards are not yet supported.

Supports idempotency via the `Idempotency-Key` header.

**[Required scope](/using-the-api/scopes/):** `emails:create`

**[Rate limit category](/using-the-api/rate-limits/):** Write

### Parameters

- `body EmailSendParams`

  - `From param.Field[string]`

    Bare email address (no display name). Must match a connected email account owned by the API key user. Compared case-insensitively. Used as the From header when sending.

  - `MessageBody param.Field[EmailSendParamsMessageBody]`

    Email message body (HTML or plain text).

    - `Content string`

      Email body content.

    - `ContentType string`

      Defaults to `HTML`.

      - `const EmailSendParamsMessageBodyContentTypeHTML EmailSendParamsMessageBodyContentType = "HTML"`

      - `const EmailSendParamsMessageBodyContentTypeText EmailSendParamsMessageBodyContentType = "TEXT"`

  - `Subject param.Field[string]`

    Email subject. Cannot be empty.

  - `To param.Field[[]string]`

    Recipient email addresses (bare, no display names). At least 1, at most 500.

  - `Attachments param.Field[[]string]`

    Optional list of file IDs (uploaded via the Files API) to attach to the email. Maximum 5 attachments per email, each ≤ 3MB.

  - `Bcc param.Field[[]string]`

    Bcc recipients (same shape as `to`).

  - `Cc param.Field[[]string]`

    Cc recipients (same shape as `to`).

### Returns

- `type EmailSendResponse struct{…}`

  - `SentAt string`

    ISO 8601 timestamp of when the send completed.

### Example

```go
package main

import (
  "context"
  "fmt"

  "github.com/Lightfld/lightfield-go"
  "github.com/Lightfld/lightfield-go/option"
)

func main() {
  client := githubcomlightfldlightfieldgo.NewClient(
    option.WithAPIKey("My API Key"),
  )
  emailSendResponse, err := client.Email.Send(context.TODO(), githubcomlightfldlightfieldgo.EmailSendParams{
    From: "sales@acme.com",
    MessageBody: githubcomlightfldlightfieldgo.EmailSendParamsMessageBody{
      Content: "<p>Hi there,</p><p>Following up on our chat earlier this week.</p>",
    },
    Subject: "Following up on our chat",
    To: []string{"lead@example.com"},
  })
  if err != nil {
    panic(err.Error())
  }
  fmt.Printf("%+v\n", emailSendResponse.SentAt)
}
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "sentAt": "sentAt"
}
```