---
title: "Get a single recipient's delivery state"
method: GET
path: "/email_messages/{email_id}/recipients/{recipient_id}"
tags: ["Email Messages"]
---

# Get a single recipient's delivery state

`GET /email_messages/{email_id}/recipients/{recipient_id}`

Returns the current delivery state of a single recipient, including status,
billable flag, SMTP detail, and lifecycle timestamps.
BCC recipient addresses are redacted (returned as null).

## Path parameters

- `email_id` string, uuid, required
- `recipient_id` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

Recipient delivery state.

- EmailRecipientResponse
  - `data` EmailRecipient, required
    - `record_type` 'email_recipient', required
    - `id` string, uuid, required — Recipient UUID.
    - `message_id` string, uuid, required — Parent email message UUID.
    - `address` string, email, nullable, required — Recipient email address. Null for BCC recipients (redacted for privacy).
    - `kind` 'to' | 'cc' | 'bcc', required
    - `status` 'queued' | 'sending' | 'sent' | 'deferred' | 'delivered' | 'bounced' | 'failed' | 'gw_reject' | 'cancelled', required — Current per-recipient delivery status.
    - `billable` boolean, required — Whether this recipient's delivery is billable (set on queue acceptance).
    - `sent_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `delivered_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `failed_at` string, date-time, nullable
    - `smtp_code` integer, nullable — SMTP response code when available (e.g. 550 for bounces).
    - `smtp_response` string, nullable — SMTP response message when available.

## Other responses

- `401` — Not authorized (10006).
- `404` — Resource not found (10001).

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