Send emails from the CLI

curl -fsSL https://resend.com/install.sh | bash
Documentation
Context-aware modes

Built for humans.
Built for agents.

Human interaction defaults to interactive mode, while agents and CI environments can work with structured JSON.

Interactive mode

Agent mode

Full API Coverage, tuned for the terminal

Anything you can do with the Resend API is available in the CLI, too.

Agent skills included

Ships with an agent skill that documents best practices and helps avoid common pitfalls.

Send local files

Pass HTML or React Email files from your local file system to send local emails using the CLI.

Domains & API keys

Create and verify domains, rotate API keys, and inspect DNS records from the shell.

Audiences & broadcasts

Manage contacts, segments, topics, and broadcast campaigns, including scheduling with plain-English dates.

Diagnostics tooling

Run `resend doctor` to check your CLI version, API key, domain status, and agent environment in one shot.

Automations & events

Define full automations from the terminal and then send events to trigger your automations.

Built-in Webhooks listener

Create a temporary endpoint to view live webhook events on your machine via a tunnel.

Multiple account support

Authenticate by storing your API key locally. Switch between profiles without logging in and out.

Logs and observability

Get your agent's help debugging issues. View API request logs with full request and response bodies.

OpenAI
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Developer Comms at OpenAI

# GitHub Actions
env:
  RESEND_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.RESEND_API_KEY }}
steps:
  - run: |
      resend emails send \
        --from "Acme <onboarding@resend.dev>" \
        --to delivered@resend.dev \
        --subject "Deploy complete" \
        --text "Version ${{ github.sha }} deployed."
Ready for automations

Ready for CI/CD Environments

Set RESEND_API_KEY as an environment variable to run the CLI in CI/CD environments.

  • "Our team loves Resend. It makes email sending so easy and reliable. After we switched to Dedicated IPs, our deliverability improved tremendously and we don't hear complaints about emails landing on spam anymore."
    Vlad MatsiiakoCo-founder of Infisical
  • "I've used Mailgun, Sendgrid, and Mandrill and they don't come close to providing the quality of developer experience you get with Resend."
    Brandon StrittmatterCo-founder of Outerbase
  • "Resend is an amazing product. It was so easy to switch over. I feel confident knowing that our important emails are in good hands with Resend. Everyone should be using this."
    Shariar KabirFounder at Ruby Card
  • "All of our customers are located in South America, so having a solution that could send emails from the region closest to our users is very important. Resend's multi-region feature is a game-changer for us."
    Giovanni KeppelenCTO & Partner at VOA Hoteis
  • "The speed and ease of integrating with the product was incredible, but what really stood out was their intricate knowledge of email and relentless support day or night. Oh and we also ended up winning Product of the week."
    Sam DuckerCo-founder of Anyone
  • "As a developer I love the approach that the Resend team is taking. Its so refreshing. They are also extremely user-centric and helpful in terms of getting you up and running, sending beautiful emails that deliver."
    Hahnbee LeeCo-Founder at Mintlify
  • "The Resend team have built a great product in a space that hasn't seen 10x innovation for years. Engineering peers are raving about Resend - it's such a smoother dev experience."
    Roberto RiccioHead of Product at Alliance
  • "If you're a developer or working on a startup, you're going to love Resend's approach to emailing."
    Joe DeMariaCo-founder & CEO of SpecCheck
  • "We were up and running with Resend in no time. It was seamless to integrate into our existing automation and gave us a tremendous amount of visibility into our email capabilities. Simple to say, it was a no-brainer."
    Ty SharpCo-founder & CEO of InBuild
  • "Resend not only streamlines our emails to accommodate our expanding customer base, but their team also offered valuable hands-on support during the transition from our old API. Their product is visually stunning and seamlessly integrates with React Email."
    Thiago CostaCo-founder of Fey and Narative
  • "As of our last deployment all of our emails are using Resend. We are loving the development experience of React Email - not having to leave my dev environment to develop new emails is a game-changer."
    Adam RankinFounding Engineer at Warp
  • "Working with Resend has been amazing. By using Webhooks, I'm able to track email opened/clicked events via Segment and log those events in LogSnag for visibility. I highly believe in the people behind Resend."
    Taylor FacenFounder of Finta
  • "Resend is super easy to set up. Loving the modern approach the team is taking with supercharging email. Never been a fan of other clunky tools."
    Brek GoinFounder of Hammr
  • "Our team loves Resend. It makes email sending so easy and reliable. After we switched to Dedicated IPs, our deliverability improved tremendously and we don't hear complaints about emails landing on spam anymore."
    Vlad MatsiiakoCo-founder of Infisical
  • "I've used Mailgun, Sendgrid, and Mandrill and they don't come close to providing the quality of developer experience you get with Resend."
    Brandon StrittmatterCo-founder of Outerbase
  • "Resend is an amazing product. It was so easy to switch over. I feel confident knowing that our important emails are in good hands with Resend. Everyone should be using this."
    Shariar KabirFounder at Ruby Card
  • "All of our customers are located in South America, so having a solution that could send emails from the region closest to our users is very important. Resend's multi-region feature is a game-changer for us."
    Giovanni KeppelenCTO & Partner at VOA Hoteis
  • "The speed and ease of integrating with the product was incredible, but what really stood out was their intricate knowledge of email and relentless support day or night. Oh and we also ended up winning Product of the week."
    Sam DuckerCo-founder of Anyone
  • "As a developer I love the approach that the Resend team is taking. Its so refreshing. They are also extremely user-centric and helpful in terms of getting you up and running, sending beautiful emails that deliver."
    Hahnbee LeeCo-Founder at Mintlify
  • "The Resend team have built a great product in a space that hasn't seen 10x innovation for years. Engineering peers are raving about Resend - it's such a smoother dev experience."
    Roberto RiccioHead of Product at Alliance
  • "If you're a developer or working on a startup, you're going to love Resend's approach to emailing."
    Joe DeMariaCo-founder & CEO of SpecCheck
  • "We were up and running with Resend in no time. It was seamless to integrate into our existing automation and gave us a tremendous amount of visibility into our email capabilities. Simple to say, it was a no-brainer."
    Ty SharpCo-founder & CEO of InBuild
  • "Resend not only streamlines our emails to accommodate our expanding customer base, but their team also offered valuable hands-on support during the transition from our old API. Their product is visually stunning and seamlessly integrates with React Email."
    Thiago CostaCo-founder of Fey and Narative
  • "As of our last deployment all of our emails are using Resend. We are loving the development experience of React Email - not having to leave my dev environment to develop new emails is a game-changer."
    Adam RankinFounding Engineer at Warp
  • "Working with Resend has been amazing. By using Webhooks, I'm able to track email opened/clicked events via Segment and log those events in LogSnag for visibility. I highly believe in the people behind Resend."
    Taylor FacenFounder of Finta
  • "Resend is super easy to set up. Loving the modern approach the team is taking with supercharging email. Never been a fan of other clunky tools."
    Brek GoinFounder of Hammr
  • "Our team loves Resend. It makes email sending so easy and reliable. After we switched to Dedicated IPs, our deliverability improved tremendously and we don't hear complaints about emails landing on spam anymore."
    Vlad MatsiiakoCo-founder of Infisical
  • "I've used Mailgun, Sendgrid, and Mandrill and they don't come close to providing the quality of developer experience you get with Resend."
    Brandon StrittmatterCo-founder of Outerbase
  • "Resend is an amazing product. It was so easy to switch over. I feel confident knowing that our important emails are in good hands with Resend. Everyone should be using this."
    Shariar KabirFounder at Ruby Card
  • "All of our customers are located in South America, so having a solution that could send emails from the region closest to our users is very important. Resend's multi-region feature is a game-changer for us."
    Giovanni KeppelenCTO & Partner at VOA Hoteis
  • "The speed and ease of integrating with the product was incredible, but what really stood out was their intricate knowledge of email and relentless support day or night. Oh and we also ended up winning Product of the week."
    Sam DuckerCo-founder of Anyone
  • "As a developer I love the approach that the Resend team is taking. Its so refreshing. They are also extremely user-centric and helpful in terms of getting you up and running, sending beautiful emails that deliver."
    Hahnbee LeeCo-Founder at Mintlify
  • "The Resend team have built a great product in a space that hasn't seen 10x innovation for years. Engineering peers are raving about Resend - it's such a smoother dev experience."
    Roberto RiccioHead of Product at Alliance
  • "If you're a developer or working on a startup, you're going to love Resend's approach to emailing."
    Joe DeMariaCo-founder & CEO of SpecCheck
  • "We were up and running with Resend in no time. It was seamless to integrate into our existing automation and gave us a tremendous amount of visibility into our email capabilities. Simple to say, it was a no-brainer."
    Ty SharpCo-founder & CEO of InBuild
  • "Resend not only streamlines our emails to accommodate our expanding customer base, but their team also offered valuable hands-on support during the transition from our old API. Their product is visually stunning and seamlessly integrates with React Email."
    Thiago CostaCo-founder of Fey and Narative
  • "As of our last deployment all of our emails are using Resend. We are loving the development experience of React Email - not having to leave my dev environment to develop new emails is a game-changer."
    Adam RankinFounding Engineer at Warp
  • "Working with Resend has been amazing. By using Webhooks, I'm able to track email opened/clicked events via Segment and log those events in LogSnag for visibility. I highly believe in the people behind Resend."
    Taylor FacenFounder of Finta
  • "Resend is super easy to set up. Loving the modern approach the team is taking with supercharging email. Never been a fan of other clunky tools."
    Brek GoinFounder of Hammr

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