MailSlurp offers powerful email inbox APIs over REST and GraphQL. The GraphQL API is accessible via at . Let's see how we can use GraphQL to create email addresses, send and even receive emails and attachments using GraphQL.

Authentication

Note you must set an header in your GraphQL client and pass a valid MailSlurp API Key (which you can create for free here). The GraphQL endpoints cover most but not all MailSlurp functionality - for instance file upload/download is exclusive to the REST API and SDK clients.

Explorer

Open GraphQL explorer

Setup code

You can call MailSlurp's GraphQL email API using any React/GraphQL client. This includes , etc. An easier way might be using the excellent open source library. First install the NPM dependencies

Next we need to create a client that sets the header using to the value of your MailSlurp account API KEY.

Editor config

If you want to enable auto-complete in , VSCode, IntelliJ, or another editor create a file in the root of your project and include this endpoint:

Query

You can make queries like so. Note that the example method call should use backticks to use template string invocation. They are shown below as double quotes because of formatting issues. Note you can use raw strings without gql too if you prefer.

The great thing about graphql is that you can explore the MailSlurp API schema yourself using the provided GraphQL Playground

Mutations

Send email