`mailboxes.scan`

Check your own connected inbox for receipts and invoices now instead of waiting for the daily check; nobody can check another member's inbox, a paused one must be resumed first, and integrations need the mailboxes:search scope. Only financial emails are imported. Returns right away with the check's runId (status started, or busy with the running check's runId when one is already reading the inbox); follow it with runs.get for its steps and counts.

POST/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan

Permissions

accounting:readaccounting:writemailboxes:search

Who can call it

admin, finance, contributor

Retries

Idempotency key required

MCP

accounting_mailboxes_scan

Reaches outside Oatmilk

It emails people or calls another service.

Fields

idstring (ID)Required
The record's ID.
idempotencyKeystringRequired
Any unique text you generate once per intended change, so a retried request only happens once. Send it as the Idempotency-Key header instead if you prefer; if you send both they must match.
8–200 characters

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Response

{
  "data": { … }
}

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Checks your input with this action’s real schema and answers like the API, with synthetic data. No key needed, and nothing changes.

Input

POST/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan

curl https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OATMILK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{
  "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d"
}'

const response = await fetch("https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.OATMILK_API_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d"
  }),
});
const { data, error } = await response.json();
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${error.code}: ${error.message}`);
console.log(data);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://app.getoatmilk.com/api/v1/accounting/mailboxes.scan",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OATMILK_API_KEY']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "id": "9a8b7c6d-5e4f-4a3b-8c2d-1e0f9a8b7c6d",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
payload = response.json()
if not response.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{payload['error']['code']}: {payload['error']['message']}")
print(payload["data"])

Fields

Example

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