Create an email inbox

import Telnyx from 'telnyx';

const client = new Telnyx({
  apiKey: process.env['TELNYX_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const EmailInbox = await client.emailInboxes.create();

console.log(EmailInbox.data);

import os
from telnyx import Telnyx

client = Telnyx(
    api_key=os.environ.get("TELNYX_API_KEY"),  # This is the default and can be omitted
)
email_inbox = client.email_inboxes.create()
print(email_inbox.data)

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-go"
	"github.com/team-telnyx/telnyx-go/option"
)

func main() {
	client := telnyx.NewClient(
		option.WithAPIKey("My API Key"),
	)
	emailInboxe, err := client.EmailInboxes.New(
		context.TODO(),
		telnyx.EmailInboxeNewParams{
		},
	)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err.Error())
	}
	fmt.Printf("%+v\n", emailInboxe.Data)
}

package com.telnyx.sdk.example;

import com.telnyx.sdk.client.TelnyxClient;
import com.telnyx.sdk.client.okhttp.TelnyxOkHttpClient;
import com.telnyx.sdk.models.emailInboxes.EmailInboxeCreateParams;

public final class Main {
    private Main() {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        TelnyxClient client = TelnyxOkHttpClient.fromEnv();

        EmailInboxeCreateParams params = EmailInboxeCreateParams.builder()
            .build();
        var response = client.emailInboxes().create(params);
    }
}

require "telnyx"

telnyx = Telnyx::Client.new(api_key: "My API Key")

email_inbox = telnyx.email_inboxes.create

puts(email_inbox)

<?php

require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Telnyx\Client;
use Telnyx\Core\Exceptions\APIException;

$client = new Client(apiKey: getenv('TELNYX_API_KEY') ?: 'My API Key');

try {
  $email_inbox = $client->emailInboxes->create();

  var_dump($email_inbox);
} catch (APIException $e) {
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

telnyx email-inboxes create \
  --api-key 'My API Key'

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.telnyx.com/v2/email_inboxes \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{}'

{
  "data": {
    "id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
    "record_type": "email_inbox",
    "address": "agent-1@abc123def456.mail.test.telnyx.com",
    "status": "active",
    "domain_id": "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222",
    "domain": "abc123def456.mail.test.telnyx.com",
    "settings": {},
    "created_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-07-12T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10006",
      "title": "Not authorized",
      "detail": "Invalid API key",
      "meta": {
        "url": "https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/overview/errors/10006"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10015",
      "title": "Validation Failed",
      "detail": "username must start and end with a letter or digit and may contain only lowercase letters, digits, dots, hyphens, and underscores",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "/data/attributes/username"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "10016",
      "title": "Service Unavailable",
      "detail": "The email domain service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."
    }
  ]
}