Create contacts

CreateContact creates a new contact POST /api/v1/contacts

Authentication & compatibility

Use a scoped bearer API key with contacts:manage. The key is bound to its user and organization.

Mailat application, account or shared resource API. Individual operations can require configured external services; this label is not a runtime-readiness guarantee.

Contract 2026-10-04. Your running instance's /api/v1/openapi.json is authoritative for its deployed release.

Request

Set MAILAT_BASE_URL to your instance origin (without /api/v1) and MAILAT_TOKEN to an appropriate credential. Replace path placeholders and example data before running. These examples do not execute in this page.

curl --request POST "$MAILAT_BASE_URL/api/v1/contacts" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MAILAT_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data @request.json

Build the request from the schema below; request.json and upload paths are local placeholders.

Responses

HTTP statuses and body shapes below come from the pinned contract. Not every shared error applies to every request. Retain the original idempotency key when retrying a send.