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Retrieve a specific block

API Overview

Blocks happen when your email is rejected because of an issue with the message itself rather than an issue with the recipient's address.

There are several causes for blocked emails. For example, your mail server IP address may be blocked by an ISP, or the receiving server may flag the message content using a filter. Twilio SendGrid will not suppress future messages to blocked addresses by default.

For more information, please see our Blocks documentation.

You can also see your Blocks in the Suppressions settings menu of the Twilio SendGrid App.

Operation overview

GET/v3/suppression/blocks/{email}

Base url: https://api.sendgrid.com (for global users and subusers)

Base url: https://api.eu.sendgrid.com (for EU regional subusers)

This endpoint allows you to retrieve a specific email address from your blocks list.

Operation details

Authentication

API Key

Headers

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

Authorizationstringrequired

Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>

on-behalf-ofstringOptional

The on-behalf-of header allows you to make API calls from a parent account on behalf of the parent's Subusers or customer accounts. You will use the parent account's API key when using this header. When making a call on behalf of a customer account, the property value should be "account-id" followed by the customer account's ID (e.g., on-behalf-of: account-id <account-id>). When making a call on behalf of a Subuser, the property value should be the Subuser's username (e.g., on-behalf-of: <subuser-username>). See On Behalf Of for more information.

Path parameters

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription

emailstring<email>required

The email address of the specific block.

Responses

200

SchemaExample

Array of:

Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties

createdinteger

A Unix timestamp indicating when the email address was added to the blocks list.

emailstring<email>

The email address that was added to the block list.

reasonstring

An explanation for the reason of the block.

statusstring

The status of the block.

Retrieve a specific block

1const client = require('@sendgrid/client');
2client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
3
4const email = "brian12@example.net";
5
6const request = {
7  url: `/v3/suppression/blocks/${email}`,
8  method: 'GET',
9  
10}
11
12client.request(request)
13  .then(([response, body]) => {
14    console.log(response.statusCode);
15    console.log(response.body);
16  })
17  .catch(error => {
18    console.error(error);
19  });