---
title: "Import an email"
method: POST
path: "/v1/emails/import"
tags: ["Emails"]
---

# Import an email

`POST /v1/emails/import`

Converts existing markup into a NEW, fully EDITABLE Brew email design on the brand canvas. Brew rebuilds the markup into a clean, fully editable design, and EVERY external image is fetched, optimized, and RE-HOSTED on the Brew CDN (no hot-linking third-party assets).

`content` is the raw markup as a STRING; `format` describes what you supply: `html` (an HTML email document or fragment), `mjml` (MJML markup), or `jsx` (React-Email JSX) — all converted into a clean, editable design. Pass `baseUrl` to resolve relative image paths. Optional `title`.

USAGE-metered: the agent’s actual token in/out is billed (no fixed price, no `X-Credit-Cost` header). The call gates on a non-empty credit balance. Returns `201` with the SAME shape as `POST /v1/emails`: `{ emailId, emailVersionId, html, previewImage? }`.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- EmailImportRequest
  - `format` 'html' | 'mjml' | 'jsx', required
  - `content` string, required
  - `title` string
  - `baseUrl` string, uri

## Response `201`

The design was imported + persisted. Usage-metered: the agent’s actual token usage is charged. `emailVersionId` pins the exact version for sends + automation nodes.

- EmailGenerateGeneratedResponse
  - `emailId` string, required
  - `emailVersionId` string, required
  - `html` string, required
  - `previewImage` string, uri

## Other responses

- `400` — The request body or query string was invalid (unknown key, wrong type, or missing required field). Strict schemas reject unknown keys — including `brandId`, which is always resolved from the API key.
- `401` — The API key was missing, invalid, or revoked.
- `402` — The org's remaining credit balance is below what this operation requires. Credit cost is published PER-OPERATION (see `GET /v1/help`): content/media operations charge a flat cost, while AI generation (email generate/edit/import, image generation) is usage-metered — charged by actual model usage rather than a flat price. `details.cost` carries the amount the runtime required for THIS call. Check your balance up front via `GET /v1/usage`. No `Retry-After` — credits reset at the billing-period boundary.
- `403` — The caller does not have the required `emails` permission.
- `409` — The same `Idempotency-Key` was reused with a different request body.
- `422` — The markup could not be converted into a valid email (e.g. it failed to render, or produced no usable design).
- `429` — The request hit the rolling rate limit window.
- `500` — Unexpected internal error.
- `503` — The credit balance could not be verified (a transient billing dependency outage). The gate fails closed rather than do paid work it cannot meter. Retryable — `Retry-After` indicates when.

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