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A common use case for Receiving emails is to process attachments. You can access received email attachments in two ways:

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View and download attachments

You can view and download attachments directly from the dashboard when inspecting a received email.
  1. Go to Emails and select the Receiving tab.
  2. Open the received email that includes the attachment.
  3. Click the attachment to download it locally.
For automated processing, use the Attachments API instead.

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Process attachments programmatically

Webhooks do not include the actual content of attachments, only their metadata. You must call the Attachments API to retrieve the content. This design choice supports large attachments in serverless environments that have limited request body sizes.
Users can forward airplane tickets, receipts, and expenses to you. Then, you can extract key information from attachments and use that data. To do this, call the Attachments API after receiving the webhook event. That API will return a list of attachments with their metadata and a download_url that you can use to download the actual content. To retrieve a single attachment, use Retrieve Attachment. Note that the download_url is valid for 1 hour. After that, you will need to call the Attachments API again to get a new download_url. You can also check the expires_at field on each attachment to see exactly when it will expire. Here’s how you can implement this: 
// app/api/events/route.ts
import type { NextRequest } from 'next/server';
import { NextResponse } from 'next/server';
import { Resend } from 'resend';

const resend = new Resend('re_xxxxxxxxx');

export const POST = async (request: NextRequest) => {
  const event = await request.json();

  if (event.type === 'email.received') {
    const { data: attachments } =
      await resend.emails.receiving.attachments.list({
        emailId: event.data.email_id,
      });

    for (const attachment of attachments) {
      // use the download_url to download attachments however you want
      const response = await fetch(attachment.download_url);
      if (!response.ok) {
        console.error(`Failed to download ${attachment.filename}`);
        continue;
      }

      // get the file's contents
      const buffer = Buffer.from(await response.arrayBuffer());

      // process the content (e.g., save to storage, analyze, etc.)
    }

    return NextResponse.json({ attachmentsProcessed: attachments.length });
  }

  return NextResponse.json({});
};
Once you process attachments, you may want to forward the email to another address. Learn more about forwarding emails.