Create Rule

CreateRule creates a new email rule POST /api/v1/rules Compatibility API synchronized with SES inbox filters. Prefer /inbox/filters. Unsupported legacy actions are rejected; migrated incompatible rules are disabled with migrationWarning.

Authentication & compatibility

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

SES email workflow and its stored mailbox/configuration data. Provider actions require configured AWS permissions and verified owned domains; receiving is opt-in.

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/rules" \
  --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.