Resend event: email.received, the payload has metadata only, not the body

TL;DR

Then run your inbound logic: auto-reply, forwarding, ticket creation, parsing. Read data.email\_id from the event.

Steps

1. Read data.email_id from the event.
2. Call resend.emails.receiving.get() with that id to retrieve the body content (text, html) and attachment details.
3. Then run your inbound logic: auto-reply, forwarding, ticket creation, parsing.

When to use

You are seeing this: Resend successfully received an email at your inbound domain. Use this skill when you run into "Resend event: email.received, the payload has metadata only, not the body".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

The official resend-skills webhooks reference states the email.received payload contains metadata only (sender, recipient, subject, attachment list), not the email body, and that you must call resend.emails.receiving.get() to retrieve it. Verified live at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/resend/resend-skills/HEAD/skills/resend/references/webhooks.md. The event itself is documented at https://resend.com/docs/webhooks/event-types.