DropMail.me Experimental API

It's in a "public beta" state! Backwards-incompatible changes are still possible!

Endpoint: https://dropmail.me/api/graphql/${AUTH_TOKEN}.

API uses GraphQL format. GraphQL schema: schema.graphql.

You can use any unique string of 8 characters or more as ${AUTH_TOKEN} right now, but we will introduce authentication mechanisms later.

Endpoint expects standard GraphQL parameters: query, variables and operationName. Only query is mandatory.

Both GET and POST methods could be used. For GET method just add urlencoded parameters to the url as query string: /api/graphql/MY_TOKEN?query=…&variables=… ("variables" should be a JSON object). POST accepts application/x-www-form-urlencoded and application/json Content-Types. If no "Content-Type" header provided, we expect the body to be in JSON.

Try it now from your browser!

Object model

Domain: Domain name, like @dropmail.me or @10mail.org for which you can crate email Addresses.
Session: Is a server-side storage unit. It stores Addresses and incoming Emails. It has limited lifetime - when session expires all its Addresses and Mails are removed from the server. You can create multiple Sessions and attach multiple Addresses to each Session. By default session's lifetime is 10min and extended each time you access it (by making any query that reads or writes some data to it).
Address: Email address, like user@dropmail.me, wasd@10mail.org. You can only choose Domain of the address, but "login" part (the one that comes before @) is assigned by the server automatically and is always unique and belongs to you only. It's always attached to one of the Sessions and it is able to receive mail as long as the Session it's attached to is not expired. If you think you might need to use this address in the future, you should save it's restoreKey and use it later with restoreAddress operation.
Mail: Incoming email that arrived to one of the Addresses and is stored inside the Session. When Session expires, email is removed from our server completely and forever. You can request different parts of the email (like it's plain text, headerSubject, attachments etc) or get whole raw MIME mail or downloadUrl to download the raw mail by HTTP.
Attachment: It's only defined when received Mail has any attachments and we were able to parse it. They can be accessed via Mail.attachments field.

Workflow

Creating a Session with single random Address

To create a new sessions, use introduceSession mutation.

Here we create a new session with new random address and asking the server to return session's id, expiration time and new addresses email address


mutation {
    introduceSession {
        id,
        expiresAt,
        addresses {
          address
        }
    }
}

the output of this query would look like this:


{
  "data": {
    "introduceSession": {
      "id": "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK",
      "expiresAt": "2021-02-18T01:40:02+00:00",
      "addresses": [
        {
          "address": "example@10mail.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

From now on, you can send mail to example@10mail.org and server would store it inside the Session with ID "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK".

"expiresAt": "2021-02-18T01:40:02+00:00" means that this session would self-destruct at this moment (it's always in the future time), unless something happens with it (some query reads from it, or new email received). Each time session is accessed, it's expiresAt is extended. So, in theory, it may stay alive forever.

Fetching the incoming mail

To check for the incoming mail, you need to periodically (eg, once every 10 second) inspect the contents of the Session using session(id) or sessions fields.

Here we are requesting all the mails for a specific session.


query {
    session(id: "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK") {
        mails{
            rawSize,
            fromAddr,
            toAddr,
            downloadUrl,
            text,
            headerSubject
        }
    }
}

This query would return an empty array when there are no mails:


{
  "data": {
    "session": {
      "mails": []
    }
  }
}

And would return a Mail object for each received email, when there are some:


{
  "data": {
    "session": {
      "mails": [
        {
          "toAddr": "example@10mail.org",
          "text": "Hello\r\n",
          "rawSize": 812,
          "html": null,
          "headerSubject": "Hello",
          "fromAddr": "test@example.com",
          "downloadUrl": "https://dropmail.me/download/mail/gql:1:9c3316a6-69d2-42fd-a2e2-3f3fd72f494a/vb18co6tn6b4pv10hgr7lhaljcnrhvk5",
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

When you plan to receive multiple emails with the same session, it's recommended to use mailsAfterId(mailId: ID) field. When no mailId provided, it returns the same results as mails. But when some existing mailId is specified, it would only return mails, received after this mailId.

So, when you start the session, first you query mailsAfterId without mailId (or just mails), asking it to return Mail.id as well. When you recieve your first mail, you'll call mailsAfterId with received mail's id as a parameter, so, only new - unread mail will be returned.

Custom addresses

You can create a new session without Address or with one initial Address (that has random or specific Domain). And you can always add more Addresses (with random or specific Domain) to the Session later.

You can't choose the login/username part of the address! It's always unique and generated by the server.

Anyway, first you would need to read the list of all the available domains and their IDs (IDs never change, so you can cache them locally; we add new ones from time to time):


query {
    domains {
        id,
        name
    }
}

Result:


{
  "data": {
    "domains": [
      {
        "name": "dropmail.me",
        "id": "RG9tYWluOjE="
      },
      {
        "name": "10mail.org",
        "id": "RG9tYWluOjI="
      },
      <..>
    ]
  }
}

Then you may create a new session with specific domain:


mutation {
    introduceSession(input: {withAddress: true,
                             domainId: "RG9tYWluOjE="}) {
        id,
        addresses {
          address
        }
    }
}

Or create an empty session and add more addresses later:


mutation {
    introduceSession(input: {withAddress: false}) {
        id
    }
}

mutation {
    introduceAddress(input: {sessionId: "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK"}) {
        address,
        restoreKey
    }
}

mutation {
    introduceAddress(input: {sessionId: "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK",
                             domainId: "RG9tYWluOjE="}) {
        address,
        restoreKey
    }
}

Try it from your browser!

Here you can try to query our API right from your browser.

Token (7 or more characters):

List domains

todo

Introduce session

This request would return a new email address as data.introduceSession.addresses[0].address, you can try to send emails to it!

todo

What is your Session ID? (data.introduceSession.id):

List all sessions

You can see all your non-expired sessions, even when you forgot to save the Session ID.

todo

Add one more address to the session

You can have multiple addresses attached to the session.

todo

Session ID missing!

Query a specific session

Call this API periodically to fetch incoming mail.

todo

Session ID missing!

Code examples

Here we are using CURL command line utility to query the API.

Creating a new session with random email address


$ curl --silent -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" https://dropmail.me/api/graphql/MY_TOKEN -d 'query=mutation {introduceSession {id, expiresAt, addresses{id, address}}}' | jq
{
  "data": {
    "introduceSession": {
      "id": "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK",
      "expiresAt": "2021-02-18T01:40:02+00:00",
      "addresses": [
        {
          "id": "QWRkcmVzczqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lKOmRyb2ZAMTBtYWlsLm9yZw",
          "address": "example@10mail.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Now "example@10mail.org" is active and it can receive emails.

Fetching received emails

Right now there is no way for server to notify you when the new email have arrived, so, you have to do periodic HTTP-polling. We are working on providing alternative ways (long-polling / websockets / web-hooks).


$ curl --silent https://dropmail.me/api/graphql/MY_TOKEN -d 'query=query ($id: ID!) {session(id:$id) {id, expiresAt, mails{id, rawSize, raw, fromAddr, toAddr, receivedAt, downloadUrl, toAddrOrig, decodeStatus, text, headerFrom, headerSubject, html}, addresses{id, address, restoreKey} }}&variables={"id": "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK"}' | jq
{
  "data": {
    "session": {
      "mails": [
        {
          "toAddrOrig": "example@10mail.org",
          "toAddr": "example@10mail.org",
          "text": "Hello\r\n",
          "receivedAt": "2021-02-18T01:30:17+00:00",
          "rawSize": 812,
          "raw": "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nMessage-ID: <test@mail.example.com>\r\nSubject: Hello\r\nFrom: Hello <test@example.com>\r\nTo: aonfmqcpw@example.com\r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII\r\n\r\nHello\r\n",
          "id": "TWFpbDqcMxamadJC/aLiPz/XL0lKOnZiMThjbzZ0bjZiNHB2MTBoZ3I3bGhhbGpjbnJodms1",
          "html": null,
          "headerSubject": "Hello",
          "headerFrom": "Hello <test@example.com>",
          "fromAddr": "test@example.com",
          "downloadUrl": "https://dropmail.me/download/mail/gql:1:9c3316a6-69d2-42fd-a2e2-3f3fd72f494a/vb18co6tn6b4pv10hgr7lhaljcnrhvk5",
          "decodeStatus": "OK"
        }
      ],
      "id": "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK",
      "expiresAt": "2021-02-18T01:41:50+00:00",
      "addresses": [
        {
          "restoreKey": "0c88ea831f8f71bf3885f2b5bddd6c371",
          "id": "QWRkcmVzczqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lKOmRyb2ZAMTBtYWlsLm9yZw",
          "address": "example@10mail.org"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same, but more compact:


$ curl --silent https://dropmail.me/api/graphql/MY_TOKEN -d 'query=query ($id: ID!) {session(id:$id) {mails{rawSize, fromAddr, toAddr, downloadUrl, text, headerSubject}} }&variables={"id": "U2Vzc2lvbjqcMxamadJC_aLiPz_XL0lK"}' | jq
{
  "data": {
    "session": {
      "mails": [
        {
          "toAddr": "example@10mail.org",
          "text": "Hello\r\n",
          "rawSize": 812,
          "html": null,
          "headerSubject": "Hello",
          "fromAddr": "test@example.com",
          "downloadUrl": "https://dropmail.me/download/mail/gql:1:9c3316a6-69d2-42fd-a2e2-3f3fd72f494a/vb18co6tn6b4pv10hgr7lhaljcnrhvk5",
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}